On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:51 PM, David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the question that arises, and a primary reason for preferring > one over the other, is how much of a risk one thinks that scenario is. > Personally, I prefer (even as an end user) that the program simply die > and have done with it rather than having more insidious faults that > may not be initially visible.
I agree with what you say, but I feel compelled to point out that in seven years of using Mac OS X and no doubt hundreds of ObjC-based programs, I have encountered many which crashed but not one which silently corrupted my data. It certainly is preferable to crash, but I haven't seen any indications that ObjC's approach to this question makes programs written in it any more prone to silent corruption than any other language. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
