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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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I think David is on the mark here in separating the cause from the stop condition itself. Some of the things which produce the stop condition now are really things that should be trappable. Give us the ability to trap them and we don't need for it to proceed to stop. Genuine stop should be reserved for Simon's type three conditions, i.e., something has happened that cannot be sensibly be recovered from. Then, one wants to capture as much information about what happened in a log and then give up. Even a missing .p or .cls should be trappable. Yes, there are some places where if one is missing one doesn't have a very graceful way to recover, but at the least one can give a useful message, log some things, and then fall back to a higher level. Other places, the missing .p or .cls is just a missing option.
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