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Johannes Schindelin a =E9crit :
>=20
> For me, a dry run is something that avoids the high-cost operations.

See:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_Run_(testing)
 http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/dryrun?view=3Duk
 http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861689507/dry_run.html

It's more "do something as it was for real but it's not". It has nothin=
g
to do with high-cost operations or something like that.

Yes?

> I would not like to remove the got_states.  I think this is the wrong=
=20
> direction.  Rather change the die() into a return error().

OK, I will try that.

--=20
Olivier.