exception handling
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexceptionandhandling
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exception
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪkˈsep.ʃən/us/ɪkˈsep.ʃən/
someone or something that is not included in a rule, group, or list or that does not behave in the ...
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handling
noun[U]
uk/ˈhænd.lɪŋ/us/ˈhænd.lɪŋ/
the way that someone deals with a situation ...
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(Definition ofexceptionandhandlingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Since theexceptionhandlingis (so far) isolated to a few programs and otherwise discouraged, this uncleanness is almost acceptable.
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Another interesting issue is the relation between continuations andexceptionhandling.
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Exceptionhandlingand lazy evaluation do not go very well together.
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The formulation we give is expressive enough to handle, for instance, standard function call andexceptionhandlingconventions.
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Distributedexceptionhandlingis provided to support limited faulttolerance.
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This would include processes such as customer handling andexceptionhandlingprocesses.
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Theexceptionhandlingmechanism takes care of the fact that proof tactics may fail.
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Critics provide the proof planning framework with anexceptionhandlingmechanism which enables the partial success of a proof plan to be exploited in search for a proof.
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In the absence ofexceptionhandling, we can in principle do more by implementing the calls to the continuation as special calls instead of regular call-by-value function calls.
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Exceptionhandlingcontexts also appear in the call chain.
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One might (and the referees did) wonder whether our alternative syntax forexceptionhandlingallows the behaviour of finally to be obtained in a more convenient first-order way.
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It allows a simple debugging model and it makes it easy to addexceptionhandlingto the language.
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Linking together withexceptionhandlingon the read and write operations provide a sound basis for fault tolerant programming.
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Another limitation has been the lack of abstraction capabilities, which has prevented the kind of expressive power that comes from procedural abstraction, data abstraction, andexceptionhandling.
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Other exceptions, however, the kernel can not process intelligently and it must instead defer theexceptionhandlingoperation to the faulting process.
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It is particularly important to recognize the compiler idioms for subroutine calls,exceptionhandling, and switch statements.
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Excluding minor syntactic differences, there are only a couple ofexceptionhandlingstyles in use.
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No otherexceptionhandlingis required, but additional non-default alternatives are recommended (see below).
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