Simple arguments check

[Mike Hearn]

n Wed, 2003-12-31 at 17:36, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> Maybe because crashing is the right thing to do in many cases,

Why? I'd have thought failing the API call would be more sensible, or
doing what GTK does and printing assertion failures. But hey. Crashing
is what Win32 does, so it's what we do. I know the answer really :)

>  but it
> looks like MS really likes defensive programming and does all sort of
> checks it shouldn't do (and catching all sort of exceptions it shouldn't
> catch). 

Some APIs even correct mistakes you make for you!