[erlang-questions] feedback please

[Theepan]

>> In my case, for this part of the software, it's better to keep running
>> than it is to crash because I hit one of the billion errors that I never
>> expected to have to handle.

Crashing can happen at the process level or system system level. It
depends. For a configuration error, you will have to crash the whole
system.

Theepan

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Kenneth Lakin <kennethlakin@REDACTED>
wrote:

> On 09/24/2015 12:16 AM, Theepan wrote:
> > For off schema data it should crash.
> > If something has a chance of happening, although it
> > is expected, use try-catch.
>
> This isn't a universal rule.
>
> I have a section in one of my programs where one of a *very* wide array
> of errors can come back from an operation on external system. For the
> *few* errors that I know how to handle and *expect* to happen, I have
> matching case clauses. For the *rest* of the errors that I either don't
> know how to handle, are aren't really expecting, I have a catch-all
> clause with a WARN print that spews details to the system log. If I hit
> an unexpected error, I figure out if I need to and how to handle it,
> then add a clause in the case statement.
>
> In my case, for this part of the software, it's better to keep running
> than it is to crash because I hit one of the billion errors that I never
> expected to have to handle.
>
>
>
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