John Deighan wrote:
 
>> The problem comes when you have a function that computes an index,
>> it's buggy and returns a negative number. 

Bill wrote:
> The point is to debug your code properly.  You can't expect buggy code to
work properly anywhere.  This is just one spot where a bug in your code
could cause you to go a while longer before realizing it, but that's still
no excuse for the bug being there in the first place. It's the bug that's
causing the problem, not the feature.


Ditto. It's a good idea to check/filter any data imported that may contain
content or format inconsistencies. This is a founding security principle for
all software.

- Chris

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