Who needs exceptions (was Re: Two languages, too similar, competing in the same space.)

[Issac]

> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:36:09 -0600
> "Issac" <issac at myfirstlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > Begging the question means assuming what you've set out to prove: 
> > 
> >     http://skepdic.com/begging.html
> > 
> > It doesn't mean leaving an obvious question unanswered.
> 
> Interesting.  I'll update my idiom collection =)

This is one of those grey-area topics where it's not clear whether to go
with common usage or with Webster's.  Being a precision-monger, I
prefer Webster's.

> > He's probably trying to drive home the point that sizeof(int) isn't 
> > well-defined in the C language.  On C implementations with 16-bit
> integers, the 
> > function call results in an overflow.  In this case, the answer is 23575.
> 
> Indeed, that was all I could see (hence my point of saying
> "machine-word-size" rather than "integer"), but it seemed too obvious (this
> being the sort of thing C programmers deal with on a daily/hourly/minutely
> basis), so I assumed I was missing some more obscure point.  Whew.  I was
> worried for a second ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Cliff Wells
> Software Engineer
> Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
> (503) 978-6726 x308
> (800) 735-0555 x308
> 


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