Jacek Generowicz jacek.generowicz at cern.ch
Thu Mar 11 06:40:42 EST 2004

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gabor <gabor at z10n.net> writes:

> i think the biggest problem with this exception-stuff is the naming.
> 
> the name 'exception' immediately means (for me at least) some kind of
> error condition.... 
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> maybe if they had a different name, it would be easier to use them also
> by non-error-conditions.

At least one language has conditions, rather than exceptions, where
"error" is a subtype of "condition", and where it is quite normal to
have conditions which are not errors.

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