Re: Developing frameworks and applications in tandem and managing dependencies

On 2012-08-01 23:13, Alan Baljeu wrote:
> StackExchange etc. is definitely not a conversation site.  It's an answer my problem site.  I like discussions, but I haven't much time for them, so I didn't chime into this conversation til now.  

I suspect that as the internet gets larger we will get more, and
smaller, communities.

And yeah, everyone is busy.

I've heard that the younger generation prefers websites like facebook
and twitter as their messaging platform vs. email. I know my younger
brother spends more time checking facebook than he does checking his email.

> I'm with Joel on this one.  It seems to me errors should be handled explicitly where possible, and exceptions tend to make a lot of the handling implicit, as in something handles them, but much of the code pretends they don't exist - which can be dangerous.

I'm not sure how I feel about return values vs. exceptions. I think
they're both ugly and cumbersome.