"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:jiunst$qrm$1...@digitalmars.com... > > 3. Intercepting and recovering from seg faults, div by 0, etc., all sounds > great on paper. In practice, it is almost always wrong. The only exception > (!) to the rule is when sandboxing a plugin (as you suggested). >
The purpose of catching exceptions is to respond to a condition. Recovery is merely *one* such type of response.
