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by lost953 2747 days ago
No you misread my refutation, I make no claims of the errorness or exceptionness of dividing by 0, merely that your proposed example doesn't support your claim that it depends on the nature of the application. I claim that unchecked user input falls into the category of 'error' and that clearly is what has occurred in your proposed example.
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> I disagree with your case, this is clearly an error because it should never get to dividing by 0.

> No you misread my refutation, I make no claims of the errorness or exceptionness of dividing by 0,

Hmmm.

I understand them to be saying that if execution is supposed to be halted before the division occurs, then whether the division is an exception or an error is a moot point.