Runtime Safety of Programs

Fergus Henderson fjh@cs.mu.oz.au
Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:00:16 +1100


On 01-Feb-2000, Zuurbier, E. - AMSXE <Erik.Zuurbier@klm.nl> wrote:
> Now that I think of it, maybe I would particularly like exceptions handling
> in cases where the
> runtime system throws them, not the programmer: ''heap full', 'stack
> overflow', 'cycle in spine'.

"Disk full" is another good example.

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