On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Jeff Johnson wrote:
The other approach is "Punish the moron. NOW!" LART 'em w a ruler and
add assert's throughout the code on "can't happen" conditions.
A kinder, gentler person might say:
die loudly and early when an error is detected, rather
than guess after an unknown state transition
and remove the value judgments of 'punish' and 'moron' ;)
you know -- refusenik style
-- Russ herrold
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