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by endgame 216 days ago
It is a fantastic read. I find myself quoting section 5.3.1 on Well-Behaved Functions (WBFs) quite often, especially rule 2: "If the specification doesn’t say what to do raise an exception."

This really helps systems from muddling along into bizarre states, where things are going awry and nobody knows why.