Dealing with Errors
Juan Julián Merelo · Apress eBooks · 2020
Errors get a bad rep just because they make it look like something is wrong, and it’s your fault. It shouldn’t be that way. Errors are normally misunderstandings between the application and whoever is interacting with it—the programmer or the final user. It’s then our responsibility to determine what the misunderstanding is, and up to a point, figure out what the application was expecting. Designing errors (we will call them errors, for the sake of brevity, when we mean misunderstandings) and the messages they deliver is a big part of getting an application or module just right. In this chapter, we focus precisely on this.