On 6/1/05, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 01.06.2005 um 13:24 schrieb Stephen Deasey: > > > So, how > > about assertions? > > > > Good. > > So, that means we scratch the idea of putting it in the > proc/ns_proc syntax and keep it as is, i.e. we parse-out > only the options from the argument list and do no extra > type checking there. Type-checking would be implemented > as a separate command then. > > I understand the blues with the boolean arguments and > I am willing to scratch them from the specs. So, if you > need "-dothat" you'd be actually saying "-dothat true" > or "-dothat false". > > All that leaves us with the ns_parseargs pretty much as > it is now, or? > > Apropos assertions: > http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/53.html > > This was withdrawn because of the fact that it already > exist in tcllib. So, there is very little to do except > "package req tcllib" and use what's there.
Looks good. For program bug detection, use tcllib assertions in cooperation with the option parsing we have now. For input validation, some other mechanism should be used.
