> And is it better for the user for authors to abuse an error condition but In general s/error condition/edge case/ here as constructs with fully specified behaviours are no longer errors. > have that render the same everywhere, or for authors to abuse an error > condition but only have that render the expected way in the market leader? A couple of problems this causes are: 1) It results in code that is difficult to understand without knowing all the edge case possibilities; 2) there are many applications (I mentioned spam filters, but search engines are another example) that want to only have a light weight parser and would be forced to have a much fuller one.Received on Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:33:22 UTC
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