Re: RFC 80 (v1): Exception objects and classes for builtins

[Peter Scott]

At 07:53 PM 8/10/00 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>p.s. I've always disliked the word "throwing" for errors, just to be a
>complement to "catch". An error to me is something like a trapdoor,
>where you unexpectedly fall through.

The only difference is the direction of travel :-)  In both cases you don't 
know where you're going to land.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies