From: Donal K. F. <don...@ma...> - 2008-11-25 20:23:44
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Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Even {CHILDKILLED * SIGSEGV *} may have its use. The errorCodes > thrown from core appear to have been carefully crafted to be > reasonably glob-able. At this point in time, glob appears like > the perfect hammer for the nail, but nails are likely going to > change when programmers get more into the habit of creating new > errorCodes for their applications, and introducing ambiguities, > that could have been avoided by list patterns in the first place. So... you're rejecting an admittedly perfect solution for a much more complex one because of a possible theoretical problem in the future? Words fail me. Donal. |