Re: [Chicken-users] scrutiny

[Alaric Snell-Pym]

On 29 May 2009, at 3:18 pm, felix winkelmann wrote:

> When I write something from scratch, I usually go through a phase
> of fixing typos and trivial errors (forgetting an pass an argument,
> etc.),
> and to help out with this tedious work, the scrutiny feature was
> implemented.
> Note that this is not an optimization, it is just for checking code
> correctness.

YES. I find this, too. When writing Scheme I get loads of trivial
errors up-front: usually, not enough closing parens (yeah, yeah, I
know, I should use emacs), but then typos and missing arguments, which
I have to find through running unit tests to check all my code paths -
once that rush of bugs is past, I seem to get something in the order
of one actual logic error per hundred lines - while it's more like ten
for C!

So something that can statically detect some of the trivial errors is
"AAAA++++ WOULD COMPILE AGAIN!!!1!"! Well done :-)

ABS

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