Re: switch case - to require the break statements seems strange to me

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 16:11 -0400, Eric Gorr wrote: > On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > I don't see how that in any way makes an argument for or against. Once > > still must spend client's money wasting time on code that has > > questionable merit. Yes, some debugging code is a great boon in any > > application, but littered everywhere to fulfill someone's subjective > > philosophical ideal when sometimes it's just plain unnecessary... > > wasteful IMHO. > > As far as I know, no one has yet come up with a proof showing when > debugging code is and/or is not necessary. > > The simple fact is that bugs can popup anywhere and spending a > client's time and money by spending a few minutes writing all of the > simple test cases throughout an application can be well worth it as it > can save far more of the client's time and money by not wasting it on > tracking down bugs that could have been easily caught. It is impractical to include debugging code for every conditional in a program. Doubly impractical to do so in PHP unless you have some way to prevent said debugging code from running in production. Maybe you're confusing debugging code with unit tests. As I said earlier, it is far more practical to do so for complex conditions where a reader might easily get lost. Rather useless for simplistic cases. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP