Re: strange NSException code

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 30 Nov 2005, at 05:15, Lloyd Dupont wrote:

> Why is it that the default exception code call exit()

Because that causes the program to terminate cleanly .
Because it's what the spec/compatibility dictates.
Because there seems no other reasonable behavior.

> why not let the program crahs normally?

Why do you want the program to crash?  and how are you going to make  
it 'crash normally'?  if the handler did not terminate the program,  
the program would try to continue ... and could do anything ...  
corrupt data/files, bill your customers for things you didn't deliver  
them etc.  Often it might crash pretty immediately, occasionally it  
might continue to work with a minor glitch ... but most people  
wouldn't want that sort of unpredictable behavior.

> at least that would gives more information!

I don't believe so.