On 5/20/24 9:06 AM, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I'm surprised by nonchalance about bad inputs evoking bad program behavior.

I think the claim is that it's better to stop immediately with an error
on invalid input rather than guess at the user's intent and try to go on.


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