Perl is worse!

[Martijn Faassen]

Steve Lamb <grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:
[snip]
>     Personally, if my email client died because of some uncaught exception
> versus me being able to close out my message beacuse of some bug in a display
> routine, I'd rather be able to close out and save my 20k message than have to
> retype it.  There is more to programs than databases.

Then have your program catch your exceptions! That's one of the main
reasons for the existence of the exception handling mechanism; to recover
gracefully from the unexpected.

It is possible to catch *all* exceptions, if you're worried about that.
Or whole groups of exceptions, if you like. They're in a hierarchy.

And face it, bugs can cause data-loss in any programming language; 
Perl, Python, or whatever. Some languages just have nicer mechanisms to
recover from bugs than others.

[snip]
>     No, I made sure there was a number in there, Python is the one that
> decided to drop a None in.

No, there wasn't a number there, as otherwise Python wouldn't have
dropped in None. The only alternative is that your regular expression
is buggy.

Regards,

Martijn
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