re: #242 Walter L. Newton

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You’re right, I can’t make that judgement, but others, who have seen the code, have made that judgement. Argue with them.

Given that that story follows the meme of “relying on computer code that, if it generates an error message, continues as if nothing untoward ever occurred”, I don’t think it’s going to persuade me of anything. There are lots of times you want an error message to be ignored and the program to occur as though nothing untoward ever happened.