31 Dec
2003
31 Dec
'03
5:36 p.m.
On December 31, 2003 12:14 pm, Mike Hearn wrote:
I guess the reason we need to crash when windows does is for apps that trap the fault and rely on it? Or is it just about being as correct as possible?
Maybe because crashing is the right thing to do in many cases, but it looks like MS really likes defensive programming and does all sort of checks it shouldn't do (and catching all sort of exceptions it shouldn't catch). However, this is no reason to the wrong thing and go down the path of defensive programming where even MS didn't go.
In other words, many of these checks should be done only where MS does them (since obviously apps will depend on them).
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Dimi.