On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 13:00:55 -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > I don't think it was a "how is this possible", but more of a "what > business does it have?". And as far as I gathered, they're saying > pretty much what you've been saying, but in a different way. It's > about the continuation boundary; that is, if you're outside a module, > you have no say in how the module does its business. You can continue > only at the module boundary, replacing a return value from its public > interface.
As I see it this is the usefulness of exceptions being handled by distant code. The code in the module inverts it's interface by calling code it doesn't know with a certain parameter, accepting a certain parameter back. That way encapsulation is not broken, but errors that happen deep inside a call chain can be dealt with by code that can interact with the user. -- () Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0xEBD27418 perl hacker & /\ kung foo master: /me climbs a brick wall with his fingers: neeyah!
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