Re: message to nil? (very basic question)
Re: message to nil? (very basic question)
- Subject: Re: message to nil? (very basic question)
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:52:17 -0500
You are absolutely correct and 'messsaging nil throws exception' [...
thereby causing the failure to be closer to the defect ...] was what I
meant to write.
Sorry for the confusion.
On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 07:26 PM, jgo wrote:
"Message-eating-nil follows very much... 'fail close to the defect'
patterns"!?! Just the opposite. It allows the program to coast
along for a time after the initial error has occurred, thus failing
farther away from the defect, which costs us many hours of debugging
to try to trace back.
b.bum
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