Re: Improving the handling of system data (env, users, paths, ...)

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Rob Browning <[email protected]> writes:

> Olivier Dion <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Since this is only a concern for system programming, I would argue that
>> only those would need to change the default port strategy.
>>
>> Also, I personally would not want the default to be `error' and prefer
>> `substitute'.  The former would break any program that print a UTF-8
>> string that encodes a Latin character such as `=C3=A9' when run on a CI =
that
>> has `LANG=3DC'.
>
> At the moment, I still feel like unmentioned data-loss should never be
> the default, i.e. I feel like you should know, and have to make a
> choice, if the content of a file, or a path, or an environment variable
> is "unreadable", and we shouldn't just quietly lose the information.
> Though we could still make it easy to say "don't care" globally if
> that's really often desired.

I agree here.  Silent data corruption should never be the default, but
user should be able to opt into it if (for some reason) desired.

Tomas

=2D-=20
There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

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