Re: info/CWS slidecopy : ENSURE_OR_CONTINUE/BREAK

On 05/03/10 10:13, Christian Lippka wrote:
>> Defensive programming, eh?  Please don't.  (Look up the arguments 
>> against it in Bertrand Meyer's OO tome, for example.  "Defensive 
>> programming appears [...] to cover up for the lack of a systematic 
>> approach by blindly putting in as many checks as possible, furthering 
>> the problem of reliability rather than addressing it seriously.")
> Defensive programming? Please DO! I have yet to find a customer
> reported problem that was caused by defensive programming. On the
> other side I know (not guess, I know, we have numbers) how many crashes
> we already fixed by Defensive programming.

As I already wrote in another mail in this thread, "defensive 
programming" was probably a bad term, as different people probably 
understand it to mean different things.  To avoid talking past each 
other here, can you provide an example of how what you call defensive 
programming has fixed a crash?

-Stephan