>>> Yep, and you can see the effects of this with some poorly written
>>> extensions.  The GNOME developers *really* need to harden the error
>>> handling a bit more.
>>
>> Tell me about it. Right about the time they start *documenting* how this
>> stuff is meant to work. (I still find it astonishing that this much code
>> has been written given that there is NO DOCUMENTATION!)
>
> Well, I'm sure there's some, and it's not the source code, but I haven't
> needed to write an extension yet, so I haven't really gone looking for it
> yet.
>
> But if I were, I might be inclined to look at the code for another
> extension to see how it does it.

...and thus, if one person finds a flawed but superficially working way 
to do something, everybody will copy their mistake. Because there's no 
documentation on the "correct" way to do it.

Even then, I'm surprised this much code has been written. I spent 
literally *weeks* trying to comprehend the code of several extensions I 
looked at. To this day I literally cannot work out how the hell it 
actually works. It's just SO COMPLICATED to do even the most trivial 
task with this stuff...

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