I've been doing this wrong for as long as I've been programming (eight or nine years.) I always just try to get stuff to compile as quickly as possible, then t

I've been doing this wrong for as long as I've been programming (eight or nine years.) I always just try to get stuff to compile as quickly as possible, then to run, and then handle the edge cases if they come up. Needless to say, unconsidered exceptions always come back to bite me in the ass...