On: Studying the relationship between exception handling and post-release defects

[amelius]

Imagine you're writing a function that parses an integer from a string. Would you let it throw an exception on failure?

[kaetemi → amelius]

Depends on whether you call the function `parse` or `tryParse`. :)

Throw if you expect that the input should never be invalid.

Don't throw, and do friendly logging and reporting of your parsing errors, if this is uncontrollable third party input.