Am 11.05.2011 13:42, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
Hi,
On 05/11/11 13:23, Peter Körner wrote:
that way it is useful for a program to know, if a file fed into it via
stdin will be processed fine right from the start. nobody likes
processes that fail after 10 hours because of a missing
--this-is-an-history-file flag.
Yeah, "fast failing" is probably the most useful effect of this. I've
written programs that relied on proper ordering and would either
explicitly fail or produce unexpected results at some time long into
processing the input; if there had been an option to make my program
fail unless you present it with sorted input, I might have used that.
The PBF-Format has it, so the only question is: do we want to change the
definition of the legacy xml format? Or would we rather just focus on
our new bling-bling-pbf-format and just leave the xml stuff as it is?
Peter
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