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Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by AlisdairO on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:45AM (#12015949)
It would be quite nice if there was a synonym for expect (say unimplemented_expect) that meant 'I haven't bothered to implement the proper error handling yet' rather than 'error handling shouldn't be required'. That would really enhance auditability of in-progress code.
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Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by tedmiston on Friday July 01, 2016 @10:13AM (#12016149)
Python has a nice built-in exception for this: NotImplementedError. It's intended usage was related to abstract base classes, but it's taken on this secondary use case recently.
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Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by Manishearth on Friday July 01, 2016 @12:20PM (#12017420)
unimplemented!() exists
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Re:Servo Nightly Builds Available by AlisdairO on Friday July 01, 2016 @02:54PM (#12018743)
Yeah, I use that, but it obviously requires more work than a simple unwrap or expect, so the temptation is to just use those and think you'll remember to flesh it out later :-)
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