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From: chris@hollis-locke.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:40:14 +0100
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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.