I've been known to miss a bug over and over again for a few hours/days
depending on the importance of the code (where if it is more
important, it seems to take me more time to find the bugs ;-)).
--
Robert G. Werner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2001/9/11
The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be
able to correct them.
-- Nicolaides
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:22:05AM -0800, Robert G. Werner wrote:
> > Another reason to use a "smart" editor (be it Emacs or a Vi
> > descendant)?
> > Although, would "showmatch" have caught this? I think it would have
> > seen the else as just an empty statement and passed on it.
>
> Well, *I* would have noticed it in my vi. If you don't look at stuff you
> write closely, that's not my problem. DDTT.
>
> If you're using vim, you can of course do a v%. I use nvi, though.
>
> MBM
>
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