Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >It's different because we know why we need that one: we understand the
> >cause of the behavior and we therefore can have some confidence that the
> >kluge will fix it (or not, as the case may be).  I have zero confidence
> >in looping five times around an "ln" call.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> Even if we don't do that can we *please* put in something that detects 
> the error, and tells the user what they will have to do to fix it? 
> Failing in a situation which we know we can detect and not telling the 
> user is intolerable, IMNSHO.

Agreed.  At a minium we have to throw an error and tell them to run it
again.

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