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From the end: > Pithy statements such as “only use exceptions for exceptional cases” or “Let it crash”, while catchy, do not do justice to the complexities tha
by tuukkah 2y ago
From the end:
> Pithy statements such as “only use exceptions for exceptional cases” or “Let it crash”, while catchy, do not do justice to the complexities that programmers need to deal with when deciding how to define, propagate, handle and reason about errors.
I think the author is on to something here w.r.t. how current programming languages and conventions brush over what good code might need.
- lo_zamoyski 2y agoWhich languages and in what ways? And compared to which "non-current" languages and in what ways?