From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-17 10:52:20
Daryle Walker wrote:
>> same old question - what's the downside with detecting fundamental
>> brokeness - sounds like a good feature to me !!!
> [TRUNCATE]
> Not if it doesn't work reliably and/or gives the user false hopes.
Ahhh - here is the crux of the matter. Frequently, I can detect a user
error.
Sometimes I can't . The fact that sometimes I can't detect it does
not argue that I shouldn't raise a flag when I do.
Let it be known that:
For anyone with the hope that the serialization library can prevent you
from creating an erroneas archive - these are false hopes.
Robert Ramey