Please excuse the self promotion but if you like this topic I wrote a related post "Insidious Bugs or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Exceptions" ht

Please excuse the self promotion but if you like this topic I wrote a related post "Insidious Bugs or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Exceptions" http://verysimple.com/2009/04/03/insidious-bugs/ http://verysimple.com/2009/04/03/insidious-bugs/ It does seem like a lot of people are afraid to let a user see an error, but if you're not extremely careful then attempts to shield the user can mask bugs.