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- Subject: Re: What happenned to Wr.Error and Rd.Error...
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:48:53 GMT
- Sender: kalsow@src.dec.com (Bill Kalsow)
- Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
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- The original M2+ authors used Wr.Error and Rd.Error to document the
- behavior of the streams in presence of programming bugs. It was
- never intended that programmers catch Wr.Error or Rd.Error. They
- were supposed to cause a crash.
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- We decided that in Modula-3 "checked runtime error" was more appropriate.
-
- - Bill Kalsow
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