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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by pletnes on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @12:41PM (#18132033)
If used correctly, «this should not happen» can be very useful, indicating e.g that the program is in some illegal state, as opposed to the input being incorrectly formatted.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by scarface74 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:24PM (#18132504)
Even if that’s the case, create a custom exception and embed in the custom exception object the actual exception.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software de... by gpderetta on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:14PM (#18135590)
Assert
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