>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic
<hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
Hrvoje> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
> I hope you're not talking about disabling Ebola notices by
> default in betas. I see ebola notices occasionally, and often
> enough they're bugs.
Hrvoje> Can you name an example? I haven't seen a justified ebola
Hrvoje> in ages.
Yes. In w3-parse.el there's an alist of invalid SGML characters.
These are used both in their integer form (to handle &XXXX; sequences)
and in their character form (ordinary characters in the buffer). The
code was doing `(assq (char-after (point)) alist)'. Bill has probably
fixed this by now; I showed it to him at the conference and he agreed
it was a bug (although he didn't look too hard at it, so I will not
say he's committed to that opinion).
The other ebola bug I saw got fixed immediately (it was probably a
typo in the first place), and I don't recall what it was.
I don't say they're common (I've only seen notices due to four or five
different sections of code), but they have been pretty reliable
indicators of bugs in those cases.
Although most ports of FSF packages are well-done in this respect
these days, I think we are likely to see occasional Ebola from that
source for the forseeable future.
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