I also think ignoring errors should be explicit; the default should be
exit-on-failure (though I'll understand that it might be too late to change
due to backward compatibility)
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Martin Bähr <
mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 09:09:26PM +0800, David Adam wrote:
> > > What is the equivalent of Bash set -e on Fish?
> > I don't think we have it, as such. You would have to use `; or exit 1`
> > after lines you are worried about, or check $status.
> >
> > I suppose the argument could be made that error handling should be
> > explicit.
>
> hmm, from a programmers perspective, most sensible programming languages
> crash when there is an error that is not handled.
>
> in other words, errors should never be silently ignored.
> error handling should be explicit, but catching errors without handling
> them (which fish seems to be doing here) is frowned upon.
>
> in that context, error handling means catching an error and dealing with
> it appropriately as opposed to letting the default error handler take
> over which usually leads to an exit and for good programming languages
> the printing of a backtrace.
>
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