[ZODB-Dev] Re: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: ZODB3/ZODB/FileStorage -fspack.py:1.3

John Belmonte john at neggie.net
Mon Jan 19 15:45:50 EST 2004


Tim Peters wrote:
> I'm personally not keen on hiding exceptions by magic:  if I try to pack,
> and pass arguments such that nothing actually changes, it's unclear whether
> I made a mistake or don't care.  Raising an exception lets me take
> appropriate action either way; hiding the exception leaves me clueless if I
> actually made a mistake.

Is "no changes have been made since the last pack" really an error in 
the first place?

-John


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