Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!apratt
From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: <Control> C and autostarting GEM programs
Message-ID: <999@atari.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 19:47:17 GMT
References: <217@piring.cwi.nl>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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From article <217@piring.cwi.nl>, by steven@cwi.nl (Steven Pemberton):
> 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

No you don't... You want a bomb to kill the running program, back to
the interpreter, so the programmer can correct the problem.  Or,
you should install your own bomb handler (as most interpreters better
than ST BASIC do).

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