[phobos] Silent failure of std.container unittests

Andrei Alexandrescu andrei at erdani.com
Fri Jul 16 22:25:29 PDT 2010


On 07/17/2010 12:08 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Yes, for that sequence, the rest are irrelevant. But what I don't
> understand is why is it so bad that they also generate messages, which
> you just ignore looking over the log file? Me, I'd rather see a few
> extra cascaded messages, fix the ones that matter and ignore the extra,
> than be short messages and have to rebuild/rerun the tests just to get
> dinged again.

If you were 100% committed to that position, your compiler would 
continue parsing after an error. It doesn't.

Andrei


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