From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-19T00:35:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: "print usage_msg, exit 1 if error_flag" does not workO

Hi --

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, David Alan Black wrote:
>
> > Hi --
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> >
> > > Hmmm. I always get tangled with these.  Bracketing things doesn't help
>
> > You could make a virtue of necessity and decide that lines like this
> > should start with ! to draw attention to themselves:
> >
> >   error_msg = "error"
> >   error = true
> >   ! puts error_msg and exit 1 if error
>         [...]
>
> Interesting...  Only I'd be bound to do this for something that
> *doesn't* return nil, and get completely confused debugging it! :-)

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend actually using it.  Kind of too bad -- it's
*almost* really cool :-)

> I think I prefer multiple lines, and use folding in the editor to tidy
> it away.

Me too, or perhaps an assert method of some kind.


David

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