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Slapping on a .expect is also error handling! (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 1 day ago

I've seen this in production code before. I might argue if you caught a very specific exception type that didn't matter it might be acceptable. Maybe. But just the overall Exception type... Recipe for disaster.