> > what would be most effective in tracking > > down the inevitable problems when there's a bug in the user input > > and/or mismatched input, particularly if it happens in the middle of a > > pipe process: how are you going to report which part of the input
i'm liking Parsec ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/download/parsec/parsec.html ) > > stream was wrong, particularly if it doesn't exist on its own, in a > > way which is effective for a human to track down the problem? > Your position is that this is a bad idea because a hypothetical user > might screw up? And then it would be hard to figure out how? You > must be a python programmer. The rest of us trust ourselves enough to > use computers. i like a typechecker to keep me from the silly screwups beacuse a cat pressed a key, or i was too caffeinated / tired to notice.. regarldess of the general 'i know what im doing'
