Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!steven
From: steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: <Control> C and autostarting GEM programs
Message-ID: <217@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 25 Feb 88 21:07:21 GMT
References: <142@bdt.UUCP> <986@atari.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <986@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> But why would you want to handle bombs any differently from ^C?
> (Besides, correct programs don't produce bombs! :-)

Well, if you're writing an interpreter for a programming language, you
want ^C to interrupt the running interpreted program, but not the
interpreter itself. On the other hand, you want a bomb to kill the
interpreter.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl