Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:45:14 -0600 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:45:07 -0800 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: comparing two test files References: <5fdf65a2-052b-4c0b-b6bf-bc4dc8a7dd02@v24g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <1IGdnbzxbYSzD2nTnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d@earthlink.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.11.53.36 X-Trace: sv3-cx63nm66t0xojhf2KOfd4AcmoXvo+hlXDVwoqe56C34V48RDhaJimLpOf75KeqqMRNVXryGfY+nvHGJ!HwXIKXWEvNQOGoB6MvD8ELIlvABPJf066T10RxohOJuaBJhwg10oe8mHCs0FfJuSTvUG6zCB9Zgt!bnW8Uq1ToBZkinNDtUHjRBNPJJmrJu4g8DzZmmDsMsY= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1972 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10979 On 12/23/2011 11:13 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: .. > It is more reasonable that consciously inserting errors since you > actually did not design the errors. You appear to have hit some good > ones, too. That you had more than one is even better, because it > helps make the point that one should not stop after finding the first > error. I consider that a very important point. If my first attempt had produced only one error, I would have tried again, or tried something different, until I did have multiple errors. Patricia