http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/better-error-handling Extreme Software Engineering Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/better-error-handling/comment-page-1#comment-523 Kamren Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:20:05 +0000 http://www.heavyworks.net/?p=440#comment-523 Great thinking! That relayl breaks the mold! Great thinking! That relayl breaks the mold!

]]> http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/better-error-handling/comment-page-1#comment-384 Jan Seidl Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:54:24 +0000 http://www.heavyworks.net/?p=440#comment-384 Thanks Sean, very good clarification. Updated the post! Thanks Sean, very good clarification. Updated the post!

]]> http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/better-error-handling/comment-page-1#comment-383 Exceptions Are Not For Flow Control · Squirrel Hacker Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:01:24 +0000 http://www.heavyworks.net/?p=440#comment-383 [...] I saw this post on Better Error Handling, while there is nothing horribly horribly wrong with it I couldn’t help thinking that he has [...] [...] I saw this post on Better Error Handling, while there is nothing horribly horribly wrong with it I couldn’t help thinking that he has [...]

]]> http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/better-error-handling/comment-page-1#comment-382 SeanJA Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:54:29 +0000 http://www.heavyworks.net/?p=440#comment-382 The only problem is that you are now wrapping everything you do in try{} catch(SomeExceptionType $e){} so you can catch the errors... You should throw exceptions only in exceptional cases. For example: they gave you 'asdf' instead of an integer when they called find_user_by_id(). See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/77127/when-to-throw-an-exception The only problem is that you are now wrapping everything you do in try{} catch(SomeExceptionType $e){} so you can catch the errors… You should throw exceptions only in exceptional cases. For example: they gave you ‘asdf’ instead of an integer when they called find_user_by_id(). See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/77127/when-to-throw-an-exception

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