Subj : Re: anyone know of a language where nonexistent functions return no error?
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Fri Jul 22 2005 04:46 am



pantagruel wrote:
> An existent function calling such a nonexistent function would
> basically be left with an empty string, unless the programmer defined
> specific error generation. Theoretical literature welcome. hope this is
> a reasonable question to ask here

Do you mean something like

a=func1(b)

and if func1 doesn't exist the compiled program will just put an empty
string into a?

Imagine the debugging nightmares when you have a function called
'func1' and misstype it elsewhere as funv1, causing this 'no error'
behaviour where you'd really want to know what you did.

Unless i misunderstood what you meant, in which case i'm returning an
error!

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