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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