[cs615asa] Instances

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Sun Mar 23 15:19:34 EDT 2014


Paul-Anthony Dudzinski <pdudzins at stevens.edu> wrote:

> Is it within spec to limit this program to take only a subset of these
> flags 

This approach would require you to know in advance all possible valid
options.  While possible, this may lead to unexpected errors when you
get this wrong.

> or should we simply assume that the user is competent enough and if at
> any point any environment variable causes a command to fail we should
> exit 1?

This would probably be preferable.  Just make sure that you do catch the
errors and fail gracefully.

-Jan


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