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Kristofer Skaug
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Re: Exceptions vs Error codes
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borland.public.delphi.objectpascal

Re: Exceptions vs Error codes

"Kristofer Skaug" <✉satserv.nl> wrote in message
news:3b778917_2@dnews...
> "Greg Lorriman" <✉bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:3b770d27_2@dnews...
> >
> > It's supposed to cover the unexpected which means
> > that for which your program cannot be reasonably expected to cope. A
> user
> > providing a path to a non-existent file, for example, or an
> alphanummeric
> > string where a number is required.
> >
>
> Basically what you are saying is that the "threshold" for generating
> exceptions is the allotted development budget. Complete error handling

Absolutely not! I am saying that it is unreasonable for MS Word to do
anything other than abort if the user provides a false path in the open
dialog. What is the programmer supposed to do? Is he supposed to attempt to
find a file whose soundex is similar? That would be unreasonable. There is
no reasonable contigency and it's obvious that user intervention is needed.
This situation is asking for an exception.

Greg
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