AS/400 How does it look?

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Aug 28 17:06:41 UTC 2008


Terrence Enger wrote:
[snip]
> It is somewhat common for a program to catch run-time errors and eat or
> mangle the diagnostic information.  I suppose the programmers do this in
> aid of user-friendliness or something.
> 
> My own preference goes to the opposite extreme:  upon occurrence of a
> run-time error, halt.  Halt hard.  Right now!  And be in the user's face
> about it, too.
[snip]

Or, you could just slap a permanent "Beta" label on your application and 
not worry about all that fancy exception handling. You'd be Web 2.0 
compliant! :)
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