[buug] On missing data

Ian Zimmerman itz at speakeasy.org
Mon Dec 2 12:40:02 PST 2002


Bob> Why create a "Missing subtype"?  Instead, throw an exception (ie
Bob> MissingDataException) during the object.slidingAverage() if the
Bob> data is missing.

You're right.  Of course, for FP extremists (of which I am not one,
yet) exceptions are evil, too.

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