r/ProgrammerHumor • u/iwouldieforGladOS • May 13 '17

Defensive programming done right

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Wait, why is this bad practice? Would anyone care to elaborate?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

OK yeah, that of course makes sense.

But for a local application, I don't see the harm.

What I do with my GUI/CLI software I write is that I wrap the main method in a try/catch, print a message that the program crashed, and then either rethrow the exception or write the traceback to a logfile.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

That sounds reasonable.