From: chris@hollis-locke.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:40:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19xVQU-000HTh-0W@anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030911190427.A2507@cackle.proxima.alt.za>
lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
>
> I'm willing to concede rob's point. In an interactive environment
> error checking is counterproductive if a user response would be
> preferable. But you can't design a standard around "the great
> majority of text processing code" without sacrificing the ability
> to deal with the exceptions.
>
But it is very easy to write a conversion function that does do the check.
If you have an exceptional requirement, then write the code for it.
The general purpose library should do the most convenient thing for the
majority of applications.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-11 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-05 11:54 David Presotto
2003-09-05 12:14 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-05 12:33 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-07 9:00 ` Aharon Robbins
2003-09-07 9:05 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-08 9:10 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-08 9:52 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-08 17:33 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-09 8:34 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-09 15:50 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-09 15:50 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-10 10:17 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-11 9:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-11 13:06 ` rog
2003-09-11 14:01 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-11 14:25 ` rog
2003-09-11 15:17 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-11 15:48 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-11 17:04 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-11 17:40 ` chris [this message]
2003-09-12 4:13 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12 15:18 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-12 16:39 ` rog
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12 0:56 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-11 15:42 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-12 1:18 ` okamoto
2003-09-12 9:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-09-12 9:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-15 8:27 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12 3:53 ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-12 3:01 ` Dan Cross
2003-09-07 13:48 ` Russ Cox
2003-09-07 15:45 ` David Presotto
2003-09-06 11:13 ` boyd, rounin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-05 12:04 David Presotto
2003-09-05 6:39 lucio
2003-09-05 6:31 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-05 11:30 ` David Presotto
2003-09-05 11:42 ` David Presotto
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