Pascal Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tim Hollebeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (2) in many languages, you can't retry or resume the faulting code. >> Exceptions are really far less useful in this case. > >See above. (Yes, Ruby supports retrying).
Bjorn Stroustrup discusses retrying exceptions in "Design and Evolution of C++" (http://www.research.att.com/~bs/dne.html). In particular, he described one system where the language supported exceptions, and after some number of years, a code review found that there was only one retryable exception left - and IIRC the code review decided they were better off without it. How much are retryable exceptions really used, in Ruby or anywhere else that supports them? -- Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) STSM, Informix Database Engineering, IBM Information Management Division 4100 Bohannon Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025-1013 Tel: +1 650-926-6921 Tie-Line: 630-6921 "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!" _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php
