Re: despair

On Sep 14, 1:40 pm, AEF <spamsink2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So the author of this bad code was apparently only worried about show-
stoppers.

I beg to differ. Anytime you code

$ ON ERROR THEN CONTINUE

in front of a ALLOCATE command, that is just plain wrong. No debate.
Your arguments seem to hold water only as far as error trapping the
outcome of the BACKUP command, but this lies before the INITIALIZE
and ALLOCATE as well as the BACKUP. Guilty, guilty, guilty.

I'm not recommending this way of doing things; I'm just
trying to explain what I think the motivating factors were.
Of course incompetence and not-giving-a-s%%% are other possible
reasons!

I'm going with "stupidity" here. Truly, a little knowledge can be
a very dangerous thing.

Maybe it was written by a BOFH!

Nah, the *** always knows exactly what he's doing.

ok
dpm

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