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Barry Kelly
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Re: Exceptions vs Error codes
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borland.public.delphi.objectpascal

Re: Exceptions vs Error codes

In article <✉4ax.com>, ✉eircom.net says...
> > There is no way we can predict beforehand that a network 
> > connection or a target machine will break on next use.
> > Whatever the quality of the input data....
> 
> That information is external to the program, and enters it through
> function calls; thus, it is still input data. 
Barry, I'm afraid something is not getting through. I am trying 
to say that checking at time T that a connection is alive wont 
tell us anything about its state at time T + 1 microsec, when we
perform a write.

Some faults just cannot be predicted. That's why the relevant field is called fault tolerance and not fault avoidance.
--- Raoul
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