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supercat910-Jul-09 6:02
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Member 448708313-Jul-09 8:17
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I don't like returning -1 for an error (particularly in this case) because -1 could be a valid result. eg. the values are all -1. There are a couple of nice solutions I can think of. One would be to use a nullable type ie. double?. The other way would be to let an exception be thrown or throw your own exceptions.

Only looking at the first four elements is probably the worst thing IMHO though. What do you think of this?

public double CrappyTotal
{
    get
    {
        double total = 0;

        foreach (var d in this.SomeItem.Details)
        {
            total += d.Value;
        }

        return total / (double)this.SomeItem.Details.Count;
    }
}


No exception handling Mad | :mad: . I would be happy without error handling. I could add a check for nulls at the start, but I don't think it's worth the time. It would probably depend how and where it was being used though.

So, are there people out there who insist that every exception must be handled?
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