> 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:
> > > 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.
Yeah, I agree. Seeing `On Error Resume Next` at the top of VBScript files
struck fear into the hearts of many sysadmins.
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013, Alex Boisvert wrote:
> 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)
It would definitely have to wait for a new major release of fish, I think.
David Adam
zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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