On Sunday, February 19, 2012 18:48:02 [email protected] wrote: > I guess "transient" is more descriptive.
Actually, thinking on it some more, I don't think that transient will work at all, and the reason is simple. _Which_ operation should you retry? You don't even necessarily know which function the exception came from out of the functions that you called within the try block - let alone which function actually threw the exception. Maybe it was thrown 3 functions deep from the function that you called, and while retrying that specific call 3 functions down might have made sense, retrying the function 3 functions up doesn't necessarily make sense at all. Whether or not you can retry or retrying makes any sense at all is _highly_ dependent on who actually catches the exception. In many cases, it may be a function which could retry it, but in many it won't be, and so having the exception tell the caller that it could retry would just be misleading. - Jonathan M Davis
