On Sun, July 2, 2017 16:48, Marco van de Voort wrote: > In our previous episode, Martok said: >> It is really hard to write code that interacts with the outside world >> without >> having a validation problem. > > Then you arguing wrong. Then you don't need validation everywhere, but > something you can call to simply confirm an enum has correct values after > reading. > > It is not logical to have heaps of checks littered everywhere if the > corruption happens in a defined place (on load). > > Worse, tying it to range check would then have heaps of redundant checking > everywhere, not just enums.
True. That's why I believe that Read from a (typed) file should perform such validation - but it doesn't at the moment, as mentioned in my e-mail in the other thread. :-( Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
