Heh. I like that -- the Code Jihad. I agree 100% about failing silently being a BAD THING(tm).
However, our disagreement involves what constitutes a fail. The only thing we've been trying to say is, an empty result set is only a fail under certain circumstances. To define an empty result set is a fail EVERY TIME is to limit the underlying system. Going back to the SQL analogy -- I have a data layer that performs a delete like this: DELETE FROM Table WHERE PrimaryKey = @KeyValue SELECT @RowCount = @@ROWCOUNT The app that calls the delete function will get a return value of how many rows were deleted. Maybe 0 rows is a fail, maybe it isn't. It depends on what I'm trying to do. I have a choice to fail the program after the delete. It would be wrong to require a SQL Exception thrown on every case of 0 rows deleted. Savvy? JK -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brian Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:24 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Can I make jquery not fail silently?? I have a personal jihad against apps that fail silently. My jihad listens to no reason. Sure, they have valid points that make sense from the viewpoints they hold. I don't share their viewpoints. OK? Can we lighten up now? On Nov 5, 1:13 pm, ricardobeat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That 'religious' bit is a bit offensive don't you think? There are > good reasons for failing silently as Mike, Richard and Jeffrey have > pointed out. The fact you don't accept/understand them doesn't make > their (and mine) opinions less empirical. > > - ricardo > > On Nov 5, 5:10 pm, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now $('#non-existing-id').fail().toggle() will fail, > > > but will work if it's not empty. > > > That's actually right on the money. Thanks. > > > //Still thinks fail silently on id queries is insane, but knows a > > religious argument when he sees one.
