[erlang-questions] Package Support/Use

[Mats Cronqvist]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> Dominic Williams <xpdoka@REDACTED> wrote:
> 	- returning tagged values vs. throwing
> 
> I thought we did have advice about that?  I can't remember where
> I saw it, but it was along the lines of "don't use exceptions
> except for things that are really exceptional".  In other languages,
> for example, coming to the end of a file is NOT exceptional; most
> "files" HAVE an end.  So a language shouldn't indicate reaching the end
> of a file (for the first time, at least) by raising an exception.

   i hope you misremember, cause returning tagged tuples is truly abominable. 
only a closet C programmer would use that idiom.

   mats