Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi Thorsten, > >>>[assertions] >>>We don't need to think about it. We thought about it too often, we had >>>results, just nothing happened. We need to Just Do It (TM). >>> >> My memory is failing on me for this - what have been those results? > > I can't find it right now. It was some mail in [EMAIL PROTECTED], posted - > IIRC - > by Kay Ramme. It was the result of a longer (offline) discussion between > Kay, Stephan Bergmann, Daniel Boelzle, and me (not sure if this were all). > > In essence (IIRC) > - we need a "assert-or-abort"-type assertion, also enabled in product > builds
I assume that means "assert-or-throw exception", we never should leave the program without calling the signal handler, except when we know for sure that it can't work anyway. "abort" sounds a little bit like "exit" and that's bad[TM]. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
