Re: Tcl_Ungets help [long, technical]?

David Gravereaux wrote:
IIRC, Donal or DKF gave me a wet noodle thrashing for committing an
untested change as there aren't any test suite procedures that exist for
the features of Tcl_Ungets as it's one of those APIs the core itself
doesn't make use of (like Tcl_AsyncMark).

I hate untested code, since if there's a problem with it, you don't find
out until too late. :-( OK, sometimes it's nigh-on impossible to test
some parts of the core (earlier this week I committed a fix that only
applies to Xservers with seriously messed up fonts, and I've definitely
no practical way to test that) but it doesn't stop me from hating the fact.

Production deployment always encourages conservatism.

Donal.
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