Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 20:51:32 10/25/02
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On October 25, 2002 at 12:52:20, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 25, 2002 at 07:37:51, Dave Gomboc wrote: >[snip] >>I agree with most of your preferences, but not the last: I'd prefer stopping >>with an error message to "ignoring and going on" every day of the week. IMO >>"ignoring and continuing" is the worst possible choice. > >Scenario: >1. You want to process 500 EPD rows with analysis over a weekend. >2. The 3rd row has a mistake in it (missing a closing quote on a comment). > >You want it to stop? > >For a tool designed for batch processing and where each individual record is a >completely independent unit of work, stopping is asinine. > >IMO-YMMV. No, I want it to emit an error for the third position and go on to process the remaining 497 positions. It seems that you didn't read what I wrote carefully enough. Dave
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