Re: -gui Uncaught Exception Handler (Was: Getting UTF-8 value of string occasionally fails)

[Stefan Urbanek]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 15:07 +0200, Alexander Malmberg wrote:
> David Ayers wrote:
> [snip]
> > Lest I here objections, I'll prepare a patch to address this somehow.
> > Please let my know you preferences.
> 
> While this is _amazingly_ ugly, the fact remains that it works 
> surprisingly often, so I'd rather keep the button.

I agree. Removing that button is similar to changing GCC to stop right
after first erroneous line found ignoring other errors. Yes, sometimes
other errors are caused by the first line, but usualy you can get a
picture of most of the errors on one compilation. Same for applications:
you can found several errors on one compilation+run.

I would rather suggest to add note to the doucumentation, that
developers should be aware that it is possible to return from exception.
Suggested behaviour would be: return nil, ignore operation, try to
continue with restrictions, etc.

> If there are users who expect it to work all the time, perhaps we should 
> change the label. How about "Crash later"?

:)

Stefan Urbanek
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