On Monday, March 05, 2012 15:05:57 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "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.
If a segfault were turned into an exception of some kind, then it would definitely need to be an Error like AssertError or OutOfMemoryError, not a type derived from Exception. And I'd argue that a NullPointerException should really be a NullPointerError if such is ever added. - Jonathan M Davis
