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Re: [ID 20001128.002] what's the point of example code if it is buggy?

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
November 28, 2000 11:53
Subject:
Re: [ID 20001128.002] what's the point of example code if it is buggy?
Message ID:
20001128135342.A8819@chaos.wustl.edu
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:17:31PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:01:42AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > Well, it's better than nothing, but is that enough for your purposes?
> 
> I didn't think I had a "purpose" in mind.
> I just found it rather scary that we can "ship" modules in the standard
> library that don't even compile >>without anyone realising<<

I can't argue with that...

> I guess it's time to run the regression tests and then 
> find lib -type f | xargs ls -ltu
> to find all that weren't accessed and add placeholder tests to at least
> verify that they still load.
> 
> Nicholas Clark

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