[erlang-questions] throwing from gen_server:init/1

[Dmitry Demeshchuk]

Why not returning {stop, Reason} instead?

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
> I'm passing a proplist to the init function of my gen_server.
>
> I need to ensure various options are present and validate them.
>
> I also don't want to have a huge nested case statement.
>
> Is it acceptable to throw or error when I cannot find or validate an option?
>
> Are there better ideas?
>
> N.B. The option values are assigned to fields of the gen_server state records.
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