[plt-scheme] why should black holes be exceptions, rather than divergence?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon May 31 09:48:56 EDT 2010

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Keiko Nakata
<keiko at kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> From: Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
>
>> Errors seem to always be preferable to divergence to me.
>
> Personally I agree.
> But I think this is a strong commitment,
> since I can catch errors but I cannot catch divergence!

I think you're suggesting that the inability to catch divergence can,
in some contexts, be a good thing? Is that right?

Robby


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