Postel’s Law
January 09, 2004 04:30 PM
Postel's Law: Oft quoted, but not followed nearly enough. Mark knows how to do things Right when it comes to test cases and being thorough.
There are no exceptions to Postel’s Law:I have spent an ungodly amount of time making the validator as easy to use as possible and also as strict as possible. It has almost 1000 test cases backing up its rules; 300 of those were added in the last release alone. It checks for June 31st. I swear to God it does. One day I was writing test cases and Sam was writing code to pass them, and when he saw that test case fail he almost reached through his cable modem and strangled me.
