"Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:<401ae429$0$10057$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com>...
> "Tony" <andrewst_at_onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
> news:c0e3f26e.0401301236.2b11876a_at_posting.google.com...
> > Why would a production environment require redundant error handling
> > and variable declarations? ;o)
>
> Variable declarations for readability essentially.
> A do nothing error handler for when the code gets changed to do something
> that might actually throw errors. People always exclude error handling from
> their code. It is almost always a mistake.
I tend to the opposite view: some people put too much error handling
in their code, sometimes resulting in unwanted behaviour. Without
explicit error handling, the worst that happens is you get a terse
error message; with bad error handling, you may never know there was
an error.
Received on Sat Jan 31 2004 - 02:11:36 CST
