Re: [Cppunit-devel] A new architecture ?

[Baptiste L. <bl...@cl...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Murphy" <dua...@ma...>
To: "Bastiaan Bakker" <bas...@li...>
Cc: "CppUnit Developers" <cpp...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Cppunit-devel] A new architecture ?


> --- At Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:51:51 +0200, Bastiaan Bakker wrote:
>
> >Duane Murphy wrote:
> >

[...]
> The part that is incorrect is that references can be NULL. A NULL
> reference is illegal. Through programming error you can certainly create
> a NULL reference, but that would be a programming error. ( There was an
> article in CUJ a few months ago in the "Conversations" column by Jim
> Hyslop and Herb Sutter but I cant seem to find an online reference to
> that article.) Pointers on the other hand can legally be NULL.

Some of the rules I inferred from CppUnit source are:
- No public method shall return NULL
- No public method call shall use NULL as a parameter.

If you spot place those rules fail to be respected, let us know and we'll
try to find some work around (likely using NullObject, or exception to
report error).

Baptiste.

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