Karchers LawBill Karcher (a programmer from ControlDataCorporation?) stated in the early 1970's: "Don't check for error conditions you are not prepared to handle."
Risks Digest Volume 23 Issue 03 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/23.03.html#subj18
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