From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:06:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eef4c9530db19c3c58ad2795f9876463@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kPCcnX9rkoVKesKiXTWJhg@comcast.com>
> flagging a conversion error only by a specific value
> embedded in the converted data means that the error will
> be missed unless the application scans the data looking
> for it. Seems to me that encourages use of erroneous data.
that argument strikes me as similar to the reasoning used by
politicians when they oppose reducing the harm associated with illicit
drugs on the grounds that it will encourage their use.
surely it's not a matter of encouraging or discouraging the use of
erroneous data, but simply of making as best a job of dealing with the
situations we encounter.
i'm certainly glad that when i accidentally browse a piece of latin-1
text in plan 9, i get almost all the text, with an occasional error
character thrown in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-11 13:06 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 [this message]
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
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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