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> Your code should avoid breaking at all costs. This type of practice hides bugs. Whatever happened to 'fail fast, fail often'?

• pc86 10y ago
  "Fail fast, fail often" does not refer to the build status of your project, it refers to the business. How does writing code that builds hide bugs?
  • snarfy 10y ago
    Fail fast, fail often isn't just about the business. It's about code too. If the palindrome function does not support unicode correctly, it can: 1. Try to function anyway, return true/false even without a real match 2. Detect unicode and always return false 3. Throw an exception It would be best to throw an exception. Why is a function that doesn't support unicode being called with unicode input? That's the real error.