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Style #20

Constraints:

  • Every single procedure and function checks the sanity of its arguments and either returns something sensible when the arguments are unreasonable or assigns them reasonable values

  • All code blocks check for all possible errors and escape the block when things go wrong

Possible names:

  • Defensive
  • Pessimistic
  • Never trust the caller nor the callee