On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:39 PM, R Kent James <k...@caspia.com> wrote:

> On 8/21/2016 9:14 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:
> > I strongly encourage people to do likewise on
> > any IDL files with which they are familiar. Adding appropriate checks
> isn't
> > always easy
>
> Exactly, and I hope that you and others restrain your exuberance a
> little bit for this reason. A warning would be one thing, but a hard
> failure that forces developers to drop what they are doing and think
> hard about an appropriate check
>

​Developers absolutely must already be thinking hard about appropriate
checks when calling fallible functions.​ These kinds of annotations make
our lives easier, not harder, in the long run.
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