In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Williams 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 05:06 PM, _brian_d_foy wrote:

> I think you can have whatever opinion you want about 
> liking/disliking exceptions, but they don't make different 
> things possible/impossible, they only make different things 
> easy/hard or brief/verbose.  The set of things you can do is the 
> same.

no, it's not.  die()'s action is mutable, and may have side effects.  when 
you use die() in low-level code, you possibly affect things you 
shouldn't affect at higher levels.  you're linking design decisions between
level of code that shouldn't have to depend on each other.

let's just disagree :)

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