Error Handling: Separating from Code for Easier Maintenance

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The discussion focuses on the challenges of error handling in programming, emphasizing the need to separate error handling from the main code for better readability and maintenance. Techniques such as argument validation and contractual assertions are proposed to achieve this separation. The conversation highlights the importance of code locality and the potential drawbacks of excessive error handling clutter. Participants agree that while separating error handling can enhance clarity, it requires advanced design skills and may not be practical for all programmers.

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0rthodontist said:
Have you ever seen any programmer make use of this commenting style you are describing? If you're referring to the takes/alters syntax from another thread, I made it extremely clear that it would need to be automatically generated, and that in fact that was part of the point, so that it would provide documentation that a programmer might not have created on his own.

You're the one claiming that this coding style with "separated" error handling is superior to simply having the error-handling intermingled with the code it protects -- not me. I have never seen anyone besides you argue that this would be a good idea, so no, I have never seen anyone else do it.

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Chroot, were you actually talking about the takes/alters syntax in the other thread as I thought in my last post?
 

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