https://xkcd.com/386/ :-)
On Tuesday, 22 June 2021 at 07:19:19 UTC+1 axel.wa...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 1:23 AM Steven Penny <srp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> OK, so all all these decades of experience, why cant anyone produce a >> small >> program to demonstrate the problem? > > > I must say, I'm impressed by Dan taking the time to actually provide one. > > My answer to this would have been: Because we would have to take time out > of our lives just to prove a stranger on the internet, that he's wrong > about something. And that's just not a convincing incentive. > > You complain: > > >> You calling "go look through 3200 lines of Go code" (not including tests) >> [1] a >> "clear path" is a dubious comment at best. > > > And it's fair not wanting to wade through the code (I didn't). But we did > give you a much clearer and simpler way: The API contract says you should > call Close, so you should. This requires almost no time to confirm. > > Again, the interest to write correct code should be *yours* here. It is > unreasonable to complain that you would have to wade through the code and > expect us to not only do *that*, but then *also* carefully craft a > program which proves you wrong - when the only person who benefits from it > is you and the only reason it's necessary is that you refuse to keep to a > simple API contract. > > Again, kudos to Dan. He certainly was a lot more willing to sacrifice his > time for the benefit of a stranger than I would've been or is reasonable to > expect. > > Either they cant be bothered, or they dont >> actually know how to create a program that would demonstrate a bad >> situation >> that could arise from not closing gzip reader. >> >> I am not questioning anyones knowledge, I am just asking for a >> demonstration, >> rather than "do it because we said so". >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAP8dQmvoR7COEsEB0PvuSCFC8cvF-9NuxTGBv7SZ06-phtekWw%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/3d9782bb-22f7-4543-bfa1-61cf027a128dn%40googlegroups.com.
