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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralRe: Catastrophic Failure! Pin
BillW335-Nov-13 8:46
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patbob21-Feb-14 5:20
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GeneralWhy bother with any other exception data? The message should suffice. PinPopular
yiangos17-Oct-13 4:16
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GeneralRe: Why bother with any other exception data? The message should suffice. Pin
Sentenryu18-Oct-13 1:06
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GeneralRe: Why bother with any other exception data? The message should suffice. Pin
Lutosław19-Oct-13 5:12
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yiangos23-Oct-13 6:51
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Continuing on your serious note: the code per se, should not fail, I agree. But the final program may fail at times. Say you have a web request in there, and any of the following occurs:
(a) the remote server times out (e.g. the server is offline)
(b) the remote server has a bug, returning a 500 error
(c) the remote server cannot find the requested resource, returning a 404 error
(d) the remote server forbids access to the requested resource, returning a 403 error

Any of the above results in the web request throwing an exception in YOUR application, but your code is not to blame. So there is a chance that a bug-free program CAN fail. That's why you should have error handling and meaningful error reporting.
Φευ! Εδόμεθα υπό ρηννοσχήμων λύκων!
(Alas! We're devoured by lamb-guised wolves!)

GeneralRe: Why bother with any other exception data? The message should suffice. Pin
Bill_Hallahan1-Nov-13 17:35
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GeneralWhy care about descriptive names? Pin
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Lutosław19-Oct-13 5:18
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GeneralHad a Boss Pin
michaelbarb14-Nov-13 8:58
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GeneralExecutable that requires elevation PinPopular
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GeneralRe: Executable that requires elevation Pin
Richard Deeming15-Oct-13 12:11
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Richard Deeming16-Oct-13 1:45
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Dan Neely18-Oct-13 7:14
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