On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Bart Lateur wrote: > Actually, it's pretty common. Only, most languages are not as forgiving > as perl, and what is merely a warning in Perl, is a fatal error in those > languages. Trying to read the value of an uninitialized variable, for > example, that's commonly a fatal error. Failing to chdir, is another > example. Examples? I know you're not talking about C or C++. I'm pretty sure you're not talking about Java - exception-handling renders the term "fatal error" almost meaningless. -sam
