Suppressing errors and continuing to run in a corrupt state is good for games (crashing is definitely not fun, continuing to run might be fun, unless it's the k

Suppressing errors and continuing to run in a corrupt state is good for games (crashing is definitely not fun, continuing to run might be fun, unless it's the kind of game where you can get yourself locked out of winning long ahead of time) but not good for most other kinds of code - it's better for your accounting code to crash than to save the wrong numbers!