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Re: ensuring unreachability

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From Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
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Subject Re: ensuring unreachability
Date Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:24:12 -0500
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On 2/19/2015 1:20 PM, Volker Borchert wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 
>> You need to give the maintainer some credit, also.  A maintainer has to
>> be familiar enough with code that he/she can make the necessary changes.
>>  This means not only the syntax of the language, but the operation of
>> the code he/she is changing, and what it can affect in other areas of
>> the code.  And if he/she does make a change like the OP is concerned
>> about, then a code review and/or testing should catch it.
> 
> Where the code review in this case can be done mechanically, e.g.
> by findbugs, which would complain about the fallthru.
> 

Mechanical code reviews are OK as a first pass, but I've seen them miss
too many logic errors.  I much prefer eyeballing by a different
programmer.  It's how I've run all the projects I've managed over the
last 25 years.

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ensuring unreachability Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2015-02-17 09:54 +0000
  Re: ensuring unreachability Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-02-17 08:23 -0500
  Re: ensuring unreachability Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@huldreskog.localdomain> - 2015-02-17 13:54 -0600
  Re: ensuring unreachability Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-02-17 15:51 -0500
    Re: ensuring unreachability Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2015-02-18 00:40 +0000
      Re: ensuring unreachability Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-02-18 08:49 -0500
        Re: ensuring unreachability Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2015-02-18 16:40 +0200
          Re: ensuring unreachability Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-02-18 10:16 -0500
            Re: ensuring unreachability Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-02-18 11:02 -0500
              Re: ensuring unreachability Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-02-19 09:48 +0000
                Re: ensuring unreachability Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-02-20 09:39 -0800
              Re: ensuring unreachability Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-02-19 09:50 +0000
              Re: ensuring unreachability v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2015-02-19 18:20 +0000
                Re: ensuring unreachability Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-02-19 15:24 -0500
        Re: ensuring unreachability Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2015-02-19 01:28 +0000
  Re: ensuring unreachability Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-02-17 18:49 -0500
  Re: ensuring unreachability Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-02-18 00:59 +0000

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