Is it better to use require, assert and check func...

# announcements

[Chilli]

Is it better to use require, assert and check functions or to just throw exceptions/errors myself?

[Shawn]

use require and check, they’re (imo) much more concise

[Shawn]

assert is a weird one if you’re not familiar with assertions on the jvm

[Chilli]

Should I pass some throwables to them, so it's clear what happened or is the message string enough?

[Shawn]

if you have throwables, then you should include them, but if you can’t handle that case, maybe it’d be worth it to just let the exception bubble up

[Shawn]

specifically if you’re, for example, calling error to “handle” an exception

[Shawn]

at that point you just ought to rethrow (or just not catch the exception in the first place)