Re: Denial of denial of service

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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2007-01-29 11:45 -0600]:
> in practice (unless you're programming in a pure functional mode with no
> I/O) you've generally got some non-volatile state you have to clean up
> or back out of before letting the exception pass on up the chain.

try / finally.

Which is a bit of a pain, but since I'm on the side of the fence that
likes exceptions, I consider it acceptable.

NB: I do not consider this syntactical construct acceptable:

  try
    try
      ...
    catch
      ...
    end
  finally
    ...
  end

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• Peter da Silva 17:45 on 29 Jan 2007
  • Phil!Gregory 22:27 on 29 Jan 2007
    • Peter da Silva 04:01 on 30 Jan 2007
      • too deep to show

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