Re: NSDictionary mutability test
Re: NSDictionary mutability test
- Subject: Re: NSDictionary mutability test
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:53:53 -0500
On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:38 PM, email@hidden wrote:
I am aware of why the assertion is never applied but the thread I
referenced was several years old and I was hoping that there had
been some progress on this.
Your use of the word "progress" implies that something is broken and
needs to be fixed. That is not the case.
I was using this assertion (written some time ago in ignorance) and
wasted an afternoon tracking down the fact that it didn't work.
It does "work" - it does the job it's designed to do.
Maybe the only solution is to set up an exception handler.
No, the solution is to not try to test for mutability. Such tests
don't work because they're not *supposed* to work - code that tries to
do such things is broken as designed. And no, it's not an "ethical"
issue. Writing broken code isn't a question of good and evil, it's
simply a question of what works and doesn't work.
sherm--
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