Developers of Sympa

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

On 02/24/2018 11:16 AM, IKEDA Soji wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:19:19 +0100
> Marc Chantreux <address@concealed> wrote:
> 
>>> I think Marc/eiro summed it up with the sentence: "die early". It allows
>>> failures to be found early, even in places developers did not expect.
>>> As using it enforces usage of try/catch patterns at high level in the 
>>> code,
>>> failures will always be caught.
>>
>> that is exactly the point.
>>
>> thanks for rephrazing it
> 
> My opinion is ---
> 
> Known by their names, Perl's builtin functions are low-level
> functions as thin wrapper of system calls.  Their results are not
> straightly connected to result of each test unit.  Programmers
> should write the code to decide what result is allowed and/or
> disallowed.
> 
> In short, "early" check [1] of result is required to make test unit
> working expectedly.
> 
> autodie warns this obvious fact, without giving any suggestions
> how we should do.  I feel it is, at least for our project, not
> desired.
> 
> 
> [1] Note that "early check" includes ignoring results.  For example,
>   we usually need not checking result of close() (of course we may
>   do, but gain little).  However, in some cases we evidently should
>   check, such as when we closed pipe.  It is also we who decide
>   whether result should be checked or not, not only it is expected or
>   not.
> 

I second this opinion.

Regards
          Racke

> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Soji
> 
>> marc
>>
> 
> 


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