From 3466349423348312838 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-04 11:35:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Pete Becker Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:34:01 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3C0C1E81.D4989F31@acm.org> References: <3C058126.36357A00@acm.org> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1007494446 mail2news:24071 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Dec 2001 00:52:52 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 25 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8453 Dave Harris wrote: > > petebecker@acm.org (Pete Becker) wrote (abridged): > > So this error falls out automatically from routine testing. > > If I preferred unit tests over compile-time error checking, I wouldn't be > using a statically type-checked language like C++. > > Do you realise how much simpler C++ could be if we relegated all error > detection to unit tests? Why should this particular problem be left to > testing when the compiler tries so hard to find other problems? Because it is very rare in professional code, and doesn't need explicit testing. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]