2018-11-09 16:59:21.566793+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Assert yourself - some notes on programming defensively and hiding bugs. Some good stuff to think about, especially as we're moving into a world of high failure probablistic systems (eg: distributed and networked)
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#Comment Re: Assert Yourself made: 2018-11-10 01:13:08.217141+01 by: TheSHAD0W
Programming offensively would be even better... Rather than:
if (info == None)
return
instead, do:
assert info != None
This will rapidly tell you where your code went wrong.
#Comment Re: Assert Yourself made: 2018-11-11 03:19:53.152296+01 by: TheSHAD0W
... And I didn't even realize I'd literally done what the title of the article instructed...