Op 2005-03-18, Daniel Dittmar schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >>>My peeve is about having operators added to standard types. This >>>increases the chances that using an object the wrong way leads to a >>>bogus result, not a runtime error. A more common programming error I >>>commit is passing a string where a list ist expected. And then I wonder >>>why later operations work on one-character strings. >> >> >> The standard answer to this seems to be to use unittesting. >> > > I do detect that there is a problem. It just takes longer to find the > source of bogus data than to look at a stack trace.
Sure. But some language features would make finding the source of some problems even faster. But when those arguments are made the response is: use unittesting. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
