Totally agreed. You can also temporarily turn it off and turn it back on again if you really need to by doing "set +e ... set -e". Sometimes it is more convenie

Totally agreed. You can also temporarily turn it off and turn it back on again if you really need to by doing "set +e ... set -e". Sometimes it is more convenient to check errors explicitly, i.e. with test code where the test is expected to fail, but errors should fail fast by default.