The half that bit us after we started emitting counts is that a count only helps once you know what one unit of it denotes. We had a check reporting zero that was counting lines where we believed it counted records, so it was green, honest, and quietly answering a different question than the one we asked it.
Which is why zero probably deserves to be its own verdict rather than a number. "Nothing matched", "nothing was looked for" and "I measured the wrong noun" all print as 0, and only one of those is good news.
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The half that bit us after we started emitting counts is that a count only helps once you know what one unit of it denotes. We had a check reporting zero that was counting lines where we believed it counted records, so it was green, honest, and quietly answering a different question than the one we asked it.
Which is why zero probably deserves to be its own verdict rather than a number. "Nothing matched", "nothing was looked for" and "I measured the wrong noun" all print as 0, and only one of those is good news.