On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Manlio Perillo <manlio.peri...@gmail.com> wrote: > In a program I have a function that formats the time in Italian date format: > dd/mm/yyyy, but, due to an oversight, I wrote the layout string as > "02/02/2006", instead of "02/01/2006". > This caused all the dates to be incorrectly formatted. > > IMHO, this is a nasty behavior. The layout is clearly incorrect and the > implementation should report an error, instead of returning an incorrectly > formatted time.
I think it would be difficult to define "clearly incorrect" in a way that does not introduce any false negatives while remaining useful. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
