Best Practice for Error handing

[peter.ludemann]

There’s also a discussion here:

Errors considered harmful

Interesting discussion on Picat extensions and cuts and I’d like to add my own personal pet peeve with “standard” Prolog. I don’t think there would be much opposition to the topic title. After all (unhandled) errors rip control away from the programmer and terminate the search for solutions. There might be perfectly valid solutions produced by backtracking but they never get to see the light of day. So one of the objectives of debugging a program, in addition to ensuring that successful executi…