Exceptions

On 12/3/06, Vince P <vincep1974comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help Marc. I know I probably should
have wrote a little
> bit more about how I understand that generally this way
of handling errors
> is ill advised but as much as I want to care about the
errors in some areas
> of my program, I always run into the truth.. those
errors don't matter and
> the user shouldn't be bothered with them.  So that
means not letting the
> program crash in order to follow a design principle to
its extreme. Surely
> there's some corners in every app where this is the
case, isn't it? (I'm
> sincerely asking... not being rhetorical)
>

You're the engineer, Vince.  You've made a perfectly valid
engineering
decision in these cases.  There's a huge difference between
your engineering
decisions and the sloth and sloppiness of the developer who
swallows
exceptions simply because their not convenient to deal with
or they don't
understand what's going on.

--
Steve Johnson

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