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error - catch/throw (Re: JIT stealth font-lock tuning parameters)


From: Karl Eichwalder
Subject: error - catch/throw (Re: JIT stealth font-lock tuning parameters)
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:24:23 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Using throw to report this condition might be ok.  But not signal;
> that is for reporting errors and things like errors.  This is not an
> error.

This is an important statement.  `error' is used much too often as
feedback to the user!

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