Re: Errors in (Dr)Racket
Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]>
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> On Jan 2, 2017, at 7:25 AM, Philip McGrath <philip-HuI0B06iylScIzJqBAPImwC/[email protected]> wrote: > > > So why have I not complained about this? > > First, most generally, because the bug is clearly my fault. Hi Philip, thanks for this example. What Robby and I had in mind are calls to errors inside a library that baffle client programmers. When (1) it is clear from the error message how to fix the mistake and (2) the fix can be easily located in your code, there’s no problem. Our goal is to eliminate situations when either (1), (2) or both are unclear due to error "from the guts”. > hank you for all of the thought you all have given to useful error messages, and for contracts specifically. We owe this aspect of our work to our original goal of spreading the word about reading, ‘riting, ‘rogramming but it turns out, it’s generally useful. Errors matter, POPL 2002 :-) — Matthias -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/[email protected] For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.