On 01/20/2010 04:38 PM, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote: > Behdad Esfahbod píše v St 20. 01. 2010 v 13:18 -0500: >> On 01/20/2010 02:03 PM, Martin Kalbfuß wrote: >>> Thanks, >>> >>> But why is it a disastrous idea? >>> >>> When It's a clear programming error, why not abort the program with >>> g_assert? >> >> Because that can cause user data loss. >> >> behdad > > So there are two possibilities: g_assert when you want the application > to abort, and g_return_if_fail when you don't. g_assert can be disabled > compile-time for a release, right? In that case, it does nothing. > > So why not add a compile option to make g_return_if_fail fatal, and > simply deprecate g_assert? What is the point of having it there? Can you please first state the problem you are trying to solve? behdad _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
