17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
3:52 p.m.
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