Andrew Dunbar wrote:

> One place I particularly wish we had many more asserts
> is in our importers.  We regularly receive crash
> reports when somebody tries to load a foreign file
> with features our importers don't support.  We just
> don't have much sanity checking here.  Especially in
> MSWord which is a binary format.  In fact for
> importers
> even asserts are not enough since we really want to
> prevent crashing no matter how mangled a file might
> be.

Perhaps another reason to reopen the discussion of using C++ like more than
a glorified C? Exceptions?

/Mike

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