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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:34:59 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 11/30/2014 12:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>=20
> Ah, wait, I see the reference. You're talking about the quote from Jame=
s O
> Coplien:
>=20
>     "An even more professional approach is to leave the assertions=20
>     in the code when you ship, and to automatically file a bug report
>     on behalf of the end user and perhaps to try to re-start the=20
>     application every time an assertion fails."
>=20
>=20
> Sounds reasonable to me (modulo privacy considerations). Many modern
> software already does this: Firefox, Windows, KDE all have forms of cra=
sh
> reporting that will automatically submit bug reports to the developers =
for
> you. And Firefox at least will try (and generally succeed) to automatic=
ally
> restart after a crash.

The error-catching/reporting/restarting framework is fine.  My assertion =
(pun intended) is that building that framework
on assert, which can be unknowingly disabled by the end-user, is foolish.=


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