July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
516 pages
14h 50m
English
book
Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs
by John Beresniewicz, Adrian Billington, Martin Büchi, Melanie Caffrey, Ron Crisco, Lewis Cunningham, Dominic Delmolino, Sue Harper, Torben Holm, Connor McDonald, Arup Nanda, Stephan Petit, Michael Rosenblum, Robyn Sands, Riyaj Shamsudeen
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C H A P T E R 14
Coding Conventions and Error Handling
Can you wear a Tuxedo and Birkenstocks at the same time? Yes, you can! Anyone who spent some time at a particle physics laboratory knows it is technically possible. However, some may say that such an outfit clashes with the conventions of elegance. You may also like to wear a combination of green and blue clothes. (Personally I prefer mixing red and black). We can argue endlessly about our respective taste: everyone is right; everyone is wrong. At the same time, conventions, written or not, help with living and working together. They have their own history and reasons.
It is often fun to write code and we all want to make it as good as possible: efficient in terms of ...