Returning an error code in Erlang

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Published on 2010-04-18T14:12:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 14:33 UTC
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I'm writing some Erlang code and I'm very unsure whether I should let everything fail fast. One problem I find with fail fast is that for the developer/user the exception generated is pretty meaningless. Any idea what I should return which would not give esoteric and hard to read stack traces?

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