On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:52 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Jeff Johnson wrote: > >> The other approach is "Punish the moron. NOW!" LART 'em w a ruler and >> add assert's throughout the code on "can't happen" conditions. > > A kinder, gentler person might say: > die loudly and early when an error is detected, rather > than guess after an unknown state transition > and remove the value judgments of 'punish' and 'moron' ;) > > you know -- refusenik style >
Well I'm speaking largely solipsistically, and the moron == me, when it comes to developing POPT 2.0. I'm just tightening my straitjacket before climbing into the Torquemada. But otherwise noted. 73 de Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ POPT Library http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List popt-devel@rpm5.org
