On 01.06.2017 20:37, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/1/2017 3:56 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
I get the impression that Walter tends to prefer treating stuff as
programmatic error due to the types of programs that he usually
writes. You
get a lot fewer things that come from user input when you're simply
processing a file (like you do with a compiler) than you get with
stuff like
a server application or a GUI. So, I think that he's more inclined to
come
to the conclusion that something should be treated as programmatic error
than some other folks are.
It is a programming bug> to not validate the input. It's not that bad to
abort programs if you neglected to validate the input.
...
It really depends on the specific circumstances.
It is always bad to treat programming bugs as input errors.
They should be treated as bugs, but isn't it plausible that there are
circumstances where one does not want to authorize every @safe library
function one calls to bring down the entire process?
