Shawn Betts | 21 Jan 2010 18:58
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Re: [STUMP] Interesting Bug...

> (Side note: I'm not really sure what the practical difference between
> :abort and :message is.  :abort throws out of the main loop whereas
> :message just continues; so I guess the idea is that :abort ensures
> you're in a stable state at the cost of a soft reset, whereas :message
> leaves everything as it is, risking something somewhere being broken).

I think :message may be old crust from how errors used to be handled.
It's possible one could simply want to display a message and push
through but I suspect that's almost always a bad idea.

-Shawn

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