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by dustfinger 607 days ago
I understand that is what they meant, but it is not what they wrote. They should have qualified the statement as you did, with the conditions that yield a runtime error. Even if they generalized those conditions that would have been fine.

for example:

  or tries to access a library that it is unable to for some reason without handling the resulting error.
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Ah, but the existence of a suitable library in the environment is assumed. So not having it is an unexpected condition.
So… most likely it is a “typo” or edit-mistake or similar. If you understand what they meant then all is good, no?