[Info-vax] BASIC (and Horizon)

[Scott Dorsey]

Michael S  <already5chosen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>The third option, the one I like least (an understatement) is use of
>exceptions. Despite my personal preferences, it's quite popular.

Exceptions can be very elegant or very inelegant... and it is entirely
possible to have an exception that doesn't clean anything up at all and
just exits and lets the operating system deal with the memory.  On many
systems this is a great idea because being able to exit quickly on a failure
is more important than people give it credit for.  On some other systems
that have memory management issues it can lead to leakage.
--scott
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