[PRL] Joel on Software - Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
Paul A. Steckler
steck at stecksoft.com
Wed May 11 17:12:33 EDT 2005
> The gist of his Rant Against
> Exceptions seems to be (translated to Scheme) that the expression
> "(begin (foo) (bar))" may not always result in "bar" being called.
Well, I think he was citing the possible non-call of bar() as
another instance where local reasoning may be invalid. His
advocacy of Hungarian notation was to allow local reasoning.
Aspects/advices (I savor that word) also have extra-local effects.
-- Paul
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