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Author	pitrou
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, loewis, pitrou, vstinner
Date	2012-05-02.13:26:30
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Message-id	<1335965191.17.0.734282170221.issue14656@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I like the current > solution: assert(0) + return a almost valid value, but Antoine and > Benjamin don't like the "almost valid value" (and so prefer a fatal > error?). We may issue a warning instead of a fatal error (e.g. write a > message into stderr with fprintf ?) in release mode. If there's a bug, either an exception should be raised, or a fatal error. We should discourage warnings on stderr (the PHP approach).

> I like the current
> solution: assert(0) + return a almost valid value, but Antoine and
> Benjamin don't like the "almost valid value" (and so prefer a fatal
> error?). We may issue a warning instead of a fatal error (e.g. write a 
> message into stderr with fprintf ?) in release mode.

If there's a bug, either an exception should be raised, or a fatal error.
We should discourage warnings on stderr (the PHP approach).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-05-02 13:26:31	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, vstinner, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti
2012-05-02 13:26:31	pitrou	set	messageid: <1335965191.17.0.734282170221.issue14656@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-05-02 13:26:30	pitrou	link	issue14656 messages
2012-05-02 13:26:30	pitrou	create