Developers of Sympa

["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 02/19/2018 09:41 AM, David Verdin wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Soji just asked on the Sympa discussion channel why eiro wants to use 
> autodie.
> 
> I'll try an answer here.
> 
> First: Sympatic: The idea of Sympatic is to give future developers a 
> boilerplate: include all modules that should be
> used wherever in Sympa. So adding "use Sympatic;" includes a bunch of 
> modules; adding "use Sympatic -oo" includes the
> same modules plus Moo.
> 

In my opinion using Moo in a module would be the standard, so it should be 
included by default.

> Second: autodie. it's included in Sympatic. Using this modules will raise a 
> die whenever the code can't succeed. eiro's
> argument is to make sure an exception will be raised whenever the code does 
> not behave as intended.
> 
> The argument in favour of this module is the decreasing number of lines to 
> maintina to raise exceptions.

I'm not in favour of this - we should really take care about the error 
handling by ourselves. Also some operations are
going to fail even if that is acceptable (open on custom files).

Regards
         Racke

> 
> The argument against it, in my opinion, is that, when reading a piece of 
> code, we won't know that an exception can be
> raised in that exact place. I think we should maintain a minimum level of 
> hand-made exceptions with explicit exception
> typing to be able to handle them correctly; the idea is that, in some 
> cases, exceptions should make Sympa die, and in
> other cases it should not.
> 
> What is your opinion on this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David
> 


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