Ah, well as you can understand I think that the advice is still good. But not everywhere of course, in many cases generating an error the the right thing to do.<br><br>Robert<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/5 mats cronqvist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:masse@kreditor.se">masse@kreditor.se</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Robert Virding <<a href="mailto:rvirding@gmail.com">rvirding@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> Erlang has always had exceptions! The problem is much more complex<br>
> than this. Always signaling an error would make coding extremely<br>
> difficult, almost as bad as always forcing you to check return values.<br>
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</div> Well, I don't agree. But that's neither here nor there. The original<br>
question was re the official programming advice from OTP (which<br>
states; "Use tagged return values."), and whether that advice is<br>
(still) good.<br>
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