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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Exceptions and Stop signs
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Dave Buck has found that .NET is just like Java in the way exceptions are handled - i.e., the are not proceedable, as your context is gone by the time you get to the handler. I have no idea how I'd have done parts of BottomFeeder under those restrictions - many network errors are handled by simply resuming the update loop with no updates from the offending feed. The Smalltalk process hosting the update loop is not terminated in that case, and things just roll along. I've got to figure that handling such errors in .NET or Java is a whole lot more painful...
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