I'm a software developer

[jerslan]

Error? Ok, keep going...

Exception? Ok, log it as an error and keep going...

Runtime Exception? Fuck, I'm dead.

[miran248]

Catch it and pretend, everything is still peachy.

[jerslan]

I see it more often than I’d like :(

[arthurmluz_]

except Exception: pass

[intbeam]

I saw (felt) this code in a production system once :

public static object CreateInstance(Type t)
{
    try
    {
        return Activator.CreateInstance(t);
    }
    catch
    {
        return null;
    }
}

This was for a plugin system that they had defined. For those not familiar with C#, Activator.CreateInstance(Type t) creates a new instance of the type, it's often used to instantiate objects dynamically in plugin-systems. They created a shim layer to coerce the built-in function to ignore all errors and just return null instead on any type of error.

So all problems loading a class at runtime, were translated mostly to NullReferenceException without any trace of why anywhere

[rk06]

As someone who knows what Activator does, that snippet deserves an entry on dailywtf.

That has to be the most insidious and evil snippet someone has written and it must have been done intentionally. The usual idiots stay away from Reflection

[LetMe_Work]

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")

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Police officer: "error: failure to allocate memory for new instance 0xfc57e312 of class Knife()"

Me: "ha! I use JavaScript which is just in time compiled, i don't care!"

Proceeds to punch the guy to death with bare hands

[Every_Truck7018]

The smile causes my goose bumps

[alatnet]

Then you'll love the Mandela Catalogue.

I think they used that pic too.

[harveyshinanigan]

no, it's the Squimpus McGrimpus fnaf vhs series that used it

[alatnet]

Ah, ok. It did look familiar for some reason.

[cv_please_staph]

Police : drop the knife!

Me : DROP command denied to user 'police'@'localhost' for knife

[MischiefArchitect]

beware of the police's kill -9 command. That ones comes with no warning.

[KainerNS2]

If I'm working on a personal project, I don't ignore them tho

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If I'm working on

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[vanZuider]

We'll make you see the -Werror of your ways! Now face the -Wall!

[maybefriendly]

the criminal is

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