On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 05:20:27PM -0800, Blake wrote:
> 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?

I was just kidding of course ;)