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esafakyesterday at 6:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

I think it is okay to accept liberally as long as you combine it with warnings for a while to give offenders a chance to fix it.


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hdjrudniyesterday at 7:07 PM

"Warnings" are like the most difficult thing to 'send' though. If an app or service doesn't outright fail, warnings can be ignored. Even if not ignored... how do you properly inform? A compiler can spit out warnings to your terminal, sure. Test-runners can log warnings. An RPC service? There's no standard I'm aware of. And DNS! Probably even worse. "Yeah, your RRs are out of order but I sorted them for you." where would you put that?

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psnehanshuyesterday at 7:11 PM

Warnings are ignored. It's much better to fail fast.

dotancohenyesterday at 7:05 PM

The Python 3 community was famously divided on that matter, wrt Python 3. Now that it is over, most people on the "accept liberally" side of the fence have jumped sides.