Proper library behavior with erroneous user input?

Irrespective of the language used, my general advice is to always fail quickly . This localises errors to the actual source of the problem - i.e. , throw an error or exception and bail out (perhaps permitting the programmer to catch the exception, depending on the language).

Similarly, some languages with checked exceptions might force the programmer to add a check for malformed input.

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