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Displaying and propagating accurate error messages is an entire science unto itself... ...I can see why it's sometimes sensible to invest resource elsewhere and fall back to 'something'.

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IMHO if error handling is rocket science, the error is you

Perhaps you're not handling enough errors ;-)

I use the term “unexpected error” because if the code got to this alert it wasn’t caught by any traps I’d made for the “expected” errors.

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