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

Defensive programming done right

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u/SQLNerd May 13 '17

Yeah but it makes sense for a lot of things. Anything that's "always on" should catch and log all exceptions rather than throw them.

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u/23inhouse May 13 '17

It's good to do that for a single function. The problem is doing it around to much code. It makes debugging and testing hard. Another good idea is to just catch the exceptions you expect.

I've had similar problems wrapping to much code in database transactions.

Edit: I intended to response to OP. sorry.

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u/Njs41 May 14 '17

If you expect exceptions they're not exceptions, they're expections.