Re^2: Error handling

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That makes sense, thanks. In this instance, realistically the only actual chance of error is the user inputting something wrongly in step 1. By the time it's gone through steps 2-4 (which do have checks in place, and I'm working on verifying the input during step 1) it's just following a long-established business process (which has been working flawlessly for, oh, ten years or so).

Followup question: is there such a thing as too much error handling?

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Re^3: Error handling by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 17, 2012 at 21:52 UTC
... is there such a thing as too much error handling? Yes. Does it make the code more difficult to maintain? Is it too expensive in terms of resources? I spend most of my error handling budget at the edges of the application, where data can come in or where it's easy to misuse an API. I spend a lot of time making sure it's difficult, if not impossible, to misuse an API.	[reply]

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