On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:08:57 -0800, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:26:47AM -0800, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> Of course, the best way to prevent the problem of what to do about
>> raising exceptions is to *stop making mistakes*.
>>
>> tim
>
> It's about darn time somebody took a firm stand on this issue.
>
> How often have we we all wished we could say this, but were just
> too timid to stand up for what we know is right? It always seems
> to be easier to write "just one more" exception handler, when
> we know that what we really should do is face up to the true
> problems of stupidity and user malfeasance. Kudos to Tim for
> setting an example that we can all be proud to emulate.

I once raised some serious ire by suggesting the solution to spending less  
time debugging was to stop putting so many bugs in one's code. It's quite  
literally true, of course.

It doesn't quite scale to exceptions, unfortunately, since exceptions are  
supposed to be about bugs in other people's code, aren't they?