Hi Stephan, > Defensive programming, eh? Please don't. (Look up the arguments > against it in Bertrand Meyer's OO tome, for example. "Defensive > programming appears [...] to cover up for the lack of a systematic > approach by blindly putting in as many checks as possible, furthering > the problem of reliability rather than addressing it seriously.")
Having seen a lot of nasty bugs and crashes which would have been prevented by some more defensive programming, I continue to think that defensiveness has its justification sometimes. (As always, using your brain is a good idea, admittedly.) But we both know that we won't reach an agreement on this topic ... Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer frank.schoenh...@sun.com - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Impress http://graphics.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: interface-announce-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: interface-announce-h...@openoffice.org
