In my experience forgiving APIs don't play well together. I've inadvertently tried it and wind up having to make everything 'forgiving in the same way'. Otherwi

In my experience forgiving APIs don't play well together. I've inadvertently tried it and wind up having to make everything 'forgiving in the same way'. Otherwise out-of-range inputs mean different things to different functions, and using multiple APIs requires tracking all the forgiving behavior.