Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 07:08:51 10/25/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 05:05:59, Dann Corbit wrote: [snip] >The problem is that a huge percentage if input is questionable. I prefer >something that fixes and goes on (or reports the problem and goes on, or at >worst ignores and goes on) to something that just stops running. I don’t, for the following reasons: (1) In case of the FEN-string: most of the FEN-strings come from another program/tool anyway. I rarely create them manually. I do sometimes, but.. .rarely. (2) Trying to guess what questionable input could mean is (a) _very hard_ (b) error-prone in itself (c) kinda useless work, in the sense that it would be much more trivial to simply fix the _source_ of the problem Just look at HTML. In a way, writing a browser which does something half-decent with most web-pages found on the net is _very hard_. Lots of documents are not even well-formed! Would the browsers just have rejected these documents from the beginning (most of which were created by tools anyway!), the net-world would be a bit nicer today. Sargon
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