Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-01-30 Thread Peter da Silva
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Peter da Silva wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Phil!Gregory wrote: > > > try / finally. > > Unless there's some magic involved, you still have to keep track of where > > you > > are in the try block so you can unwind things properly. > The C++ answer is to use obje

If you expect me to speak your language, just let me know, stupid!

2007-01-30 Thread book
I was just beginning to hate SVN, because it thinks I'm the one who should make the bookkeeping for the merges (gee, I really wonder why I use a computer...), when I found a tool to help me: svnmerge.py. A quick look at the manual^Wwiki, and I'm ready to roll: $ svnmerge init -v -v svn pr

Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-01-30 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 30 Jan 2007, at 04:01, Peter da Silva wrote: try / finally. Unless there's some magic involved, you still have to keep track of where you are in the try block so you can unwind things properly. I think this may be the nub of the debate. Ideally the try block shouldn't need much in the w

Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-01-30 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Peter da Silva wrote: > On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Phil!Gregory wrote: > > > try / finally. > > Unless there's some magic involved, you still have to keep track of where you > are in the try block so you can unwind things properly. The C++ answer is to use objects for resour

Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-01-30 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Peter da Silva [2007-01-30 04:55]: > (no, that's not a joke, but I'll let you google for it) http://www.sasktelwebsite.net/jbayko/cpu.html Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-01-30 Thread Peter da Silva
On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Phil!Gregory wrote: * Peter da Silva [2007-01-29 11:45 -0600]: in practice (unless you're programming in a pure functional mode with no I/O) you've generally got some non-volatile state you have to clean up or back out of before letting the exception pass on up the

Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-01-30 Thread Peter da Silva
On Jan 29, 2007, at 3:02 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:54:21PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote: VMS. Or rather, VMS on the VAX architecture Ahh, the pinnacle of CISC. No, that would be the iApx432 or Japan's TRON architecture. (no, that's not a joke, but I'll let you goo