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Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime

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On 2018-01-09 03:03, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:40:59 +0100, Daniele Futtorovic
> <da.futt.news@laposte.net> wrote:
>      Despite all one's thought on the matter, errors can still happen.
> Read up about the Ariane 5 launch that went wrong.  It was due to code
> reuse from the Ariane 4.  An assumption that was true on the Ariane 4
> was not true about the Ariane 5, and Bad Stuff happened.
> 
>> You are imputing that an overflow is a garbage result per se. Therefore,
>> you argue, letting an overflow happen, regardless of whether one thinks
>> about it or not, is an error. Well, yeah. But that's a strawman.
> 
>      It almost always is.  Since it is the exceptional case, let it be
> handled exceptionally.

I know about the Ariane 5 thing. And yes, I have to agree that wanting
an overflow is the exceptional case. And that exceptional handling for
it is therefore justified. I prefer it without, at a gut level; but
having thought about it some more, I cannot argue against it intellectually.

-- 
DF.

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Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2018-01-04 15:16 +0100
  Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 07:04 -0800
  Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-01-04 10:13 -0500
  Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 08:01 -0800
    Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2018-01-04 18:33 +0100
      Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-01-04 19:29 +0000
    Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-01-04 15:09 -0500
      Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-01-04 21:43 +0100
        Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-01-04 15:53 -0500
          Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-01-05 16:06 +0100
            Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2018-01-05 09:51 -0800
              Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-01-05 20:59 +0100
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-01-05 12:15 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-01-05 21:52 +0000
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2018-01-08 11:13 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-01-05 16:27 -0500
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-01-06 00:06 +0100
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-01-05 23:57 +0000
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-01-07 20:06 -0500
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-01-08 04:10 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-01-08 04:31 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-01-08 16:25 +0100
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-01-08 20:05 -0500
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-01-08 17:55 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2018-01-08 11:19 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-01-08 20:40 +0100
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2018-01-08 18:03 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-01-16 02:33 +0100
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-01-22 14:26 -0800
                Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-01-22 14:33 -0800
        Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2018-01-04 19:16 -0500
          Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-01-05 12:17 +0000
  Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2018-01-05 00:13 +0100
    Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-01-05 11:05 -0500
      Re: Unexpected Boxing Error at Runtime bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-01-06 06:18 -0800

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