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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to All   
   Re: VMS x86-64 database server   
   10 Jul 25 04:28:13   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 9 Jul 2025 22:24:50 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > There are fundamentally two different ways of handling errors:   
   > * return status   
   > * exception   
      
   There’s a difference between different statuses that might be returned as   
   part of the normal execution of an operation, and unexpected conditions   
   indicating program bugs.   
      
   Syntax errors in the embedded language would almost always belong in the   
   latter category.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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