In article <3b7d95a9_2@dnews>

	"Kristofer Skaug" <✉skaug.demon.nl> wrote:

> > A programmer must explicitly dismiss an exception, while an error code
> > can be ignored by default.
> 
> Exceptions can be ignored too. 

Only through "try {stuff} except end; "; otherwise, they will be
*visible*, and execution will be *aborted*. With ignored error codes,
the only warning you get is that stuff doesn't happen, or data loss, or
application crashes, etc.


Continuing in the face of errors would be a lot worse. Which is the
default situation for error return codes; you must explicitly, actively,
check for them.


-- Barry