On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:25:56PM -0500, Max Battcher wrote: >> This is a non-trivial task to implement. In particular, if your >> READ procedure has a bug, you can easily get completely screwed. I >> spoke once to someone who tried to use lint (with svn, IIRC) for >> this purpose, and they discovered that it would break some of their >> more complex cpp macros. > > ... and then there is the fun that David Roundy liked to point out: > how many of us program in complete compilable (and thus > deconstructable/reconstructable) code *all the time*?
You might argue it's a failing of your language, or editor, if you can insert an opening paren without a matching close paren, or similar edits that result in the code temporarily being in a syntactically invalid state :-) PS: yay for paredit! _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
