Re: The D Programming Language
Francis Glassborow wrote:
In article <J9KwII.1LMH@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, "Andrei Alexandrescu
(See Website For Email)" <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> writes
I think it's one thing to have a wrong numeric value and one very
different thing to have a program in which all hell breaks looks due to
random overwriting of memory.
If the program was for a safety critical task I do not think I would
distinguish. Well al hell breaks loose might just be better than getting
a 100 times overdose of X-rays. :-)
I agree with your point, however I hope you'll also agree that a program
with one wrong value is easier to debug than a program in which you have
absolutely no guarantee to go by.
To summarize, I guess I'd say that you have a chance to assert() against
a bad value, but you can't do much if you can't even rely on assert()
working properly.
Andrei
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