Re: [PATCH] Allow to shrink dialogs to just display a single GnumericExprEntry

[David Stanaway <david stanaway net>]

Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 01.06.2006, 15:16 -0400 schrieb Morten Welinder:
> > 1. We don't want g_assert calls.  It seems this should be able to fail
> >    gracefully by just not doing anything.
>
> I think whenever one of my g_asserts doesn't hold, something really bad
> happened which demands for a bug report. Maybe HACKING should clearly
> state what the g_assert / g_return_if_fail policy is.

I am no gnome programmer by any stretch, but what would happen in that
code if the spreadsheet was embedded with bonobo? Should it just crash,
or would failing gracefully be more appropriate?