Comments on: An invalid property list

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:50:23 +0000

Jens Ayton: Ah, good point.

You can tell I don't ordinarily think about bundle-based document formats—or, for that matter, implement them. ☺

By: Jens Ayton

Jens Ayton — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:55:36 +0000

Ooh, I know! It could be a bundled document (or archive) in which the plist isn’t critical.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:59:42 +0000

Perhaps I should specify that I mean a document-based app reading its documents. I'll update the post. ☺

Given this new constraint, what's a situation where a document-based app would be reading a document in its plist-based format, and would find that the document is not a valid plist, and should do something other than present an error?

By: Jonathan Wight

Jonathan Wight — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:37:00 +0000

"Anything else is a bug."

Man, talk about a sweeping statement. It's an easy exercise to come up with dozens of situations where that statement wouldn't be true.