On Sunday April 26 2020 20:16:33 René J.V. Bertin wrote:

>I was referring to code that just rolls their own implementation of the code 
>in almost an given library. It's a bit of a pathological argument but I'd say 
>it's beyond argument that you can always do that, whereas even exhaustive 
>knowledge of all existing code that uses that particular library (and only 
>part of it) constitutes no proof that no code could every need all of it.
>In fact, all one has to do to reject your hypothesis is write a single 
>application that contains an exhaustive set of unit tests of all of the 
>library's APIs. In fact, just unit tests of the ctors would do for most 
>libraries/frameworks.

Shall we just write this exchange off to the effects of lock-up and "social 
distancing"? :)

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