I agree, one can always reach a point at which "sanity checking" exceeds "due diligence" and leads to insanity. But to get back to the case at hand, a relevant question for this thread is whether my addition to your map block (with the extra "nfg()" function call) shows a degree of error-checking zeal that costs more than it's worth.

I believe that depends on what is generating/transporting the input to the script, and how much the application cares about out-of-band behavior in the input. I've certainly seen situations where the extra work is needed, and others where it isn't. I tend to err more often on the side of applying some extra error checking and logging when it isn't needed, and less often the other way, because the latter is more troublesome when it happens.

In reply to Re^4: HoA create from array using map, more efficient? by graff
in thread HoA create from array using map, more efficient? by hsinclai

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