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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should records be able to mimic primitive types?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 08:03:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwpa0n5y2.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkSjdfG+qT50Yr-Ti70Np7KHwxG1CJjzdfdap2RZHaN9JQ@mail.gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Mon, 01 May 2017 11:35:40 +0000")

>> - no benefit since this doesn't catch a common situation.
> Catching uncommon situation is precisely the point of precondition
> checking.

I'm talking about "common" within erroneous situations.

There is an endless supply of erroneous situations: we only bother to
try and detect those that are serious (e.g. could cause a memory
corruption) or frequent/common.

I've never seen this kind of error in the wild, so I doubt it would
*ever* prove useful to someone.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-01 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-04 22:00 Should records be able to mimic primitive types? Paul Eggert
2017-04-05  1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-08 15:09   ` Philipp Stephani
2017-04-08 17:57     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-05-01 11:35       ` Philipp Stephani
2017-05-01 12:03         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-06-10 11:39           ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-10 12:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 15:07               ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-12 17:00                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 17:15                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-12 17:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 17:47                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-12 17:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-16 18:42         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-06-16 19:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-24 14:47             ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-24 16:44               ` Stefan Monnier

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