Pop return from stack?

[bvdp]

On Aug 20, 6:41 pm, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew... at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> bvdp wrote:
> > The whole problem I was having is that I was trying to tie a small
> > application (an helper to the main application) to use a bit of the
> > existing code as a pseudo-library.
>
> This is precisely the reason that it's a bad idea to
> directly terminate the program from somewhere deep inside
> the code. It makes it hard to re-use the code in another
> context.
>
> It's much better to raise an exception containing an
> appropriate error message, catch it at the top level
> of the application and print the message and exit there.
> Then you can easily re-use any of the code in a context
> where it's not appropriate to have it exit out from
> under you.
>
> --
> Greg

Thanks Greg. That makes a lot of sense ... for the next program I
write :)