unit libraries, was Re: null references redux + Looney Tunes

Rainer Deyke rainerd at eldwood.com
Mon Oct 5 05:59:40 PDT 2009


language_fan wrote:
> The only problem with these was that there was no way to signal the 
> location of the type error in the client code, it always reported the 
> location of the (static) assert in the library, which is pretty much 
> useless.

That's a compiler problem, no?  I don't think this is a big deal either
way.  Unit errors should be exceedingly rare.  The purpose of a unit
library not to track down unit errors, but to formally prove that
correct code is correct.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com



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