Is Python your only programming language?

Tom Hanks thanks200 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 15 03:11:29 EDT 2003


"Richard Brodie" <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote in message 
[snip]
> It was in a background task, that was unnecessary. However the
> exception handling was specified to be: write results to EEPROM
> and halt. It's true that in C one would likely have garbage values
> in the integer, and the error would have gone unnoticed. I'm not
> sure I find that a comforting thought though.

Yeah, I hate "fail-silently" - it's much simpler to find errors if you
simply explode the rocket to draw attention to your typo. :)

TTFN,
Tom.




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