Jonas Maebe <jo...@freepascal.org> schrieb am Do., 4. Juli 2019, 21:21:
> On 03/07/2019 09:26, Ondrej Pokorny wrote: > > On 02.07.2019 23:34, Jonas Maebe wrote: > >> Invalid data means undefined behaviour, always. "is" is not a special > >> case that is immune to this. > > > > Don't you really see the need to handle invalid data with a /defined/ > > behavior? > > My point is that is impossible to do so, so trying to do it in a way > that works in some/most cases, is much more dangerous than categorically > refusing to try to do it, as it creates a false sense of security. > Then how would you read data from e.g. a stream into an enum or subrange if the stream may contain invalid data? Regards, Sven >
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