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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Still not as excellent as On Error Resume Next

Imagine the sheer ~~idiocy~~ genius required to add a language feature where, if an error occurred, the handling method is to just pretend that line of code never existed and continue onto the next line.

VBA is truly the language of savants.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

PowerShell does that by default, and it's my least favorite feature in my most used language.

$ErrorActionPreference = Stop

At the start of almost every script.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So catching errors and doing nothing? That exists in every language except maybe BASIC?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Catching individual errors is fine. Having all errors be ignored by default is weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Very different. This means default ignore all errors and continue to the next line. You’d have to explicitly catch every line in most(all?) other languages.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Like putting electrical tape over your check engine light.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wrap every line of code in a try catch block, even my try catch blocks are in try catch blocks just in case the first accidentally drops it after catching it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like try-catch blocks

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
process.on('uncaughtException', console.error)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

That's fucking hilarious

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

except: pass

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I came across a stack overflow recently about how to do something in a jasmine unit test. Someone gave a solution of “I just changed the test to xit(“… and now there are no errors!”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It works on their machine though!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Donald Trump does coding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Push it to prod & see the world burns around you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

@Irelephant "Fixed dem warnings boss."