Re: Array index nt valid

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It remains my opinion that when a program falls over with an array index
> error, then there is a problem with the program.  Even if the input file
> has no records.  As a consumer, I would never, ever accept such a
> program into production and as a programmer, I would feel
> ashamed to let one like that out of the test environment

Yet occasionally they (and other embarrassingly stupid bugs) do,
particularly with very large and complex applications.

But any programmer who would not take it upon himself or herself to track
down such a bug, and come up with a fix, while the first end-user to find
it stood upon one foot, belongs in another business. Underwater basket
weaving, perhaps.

--
JHHL
(who just recently DID put out a fix for something stupid that didn't get
noticed until an end-user complained!)