"Can't happen"

     364      if (!defined ($filesz))  # this should never happen, but handle it anyway

• A common theme in these classes is "can't happen"

• Programmers who ignore error conditions because they "can't happen" are notorious

  • We don't want to be those people

• But there are different kinds of "can't happen"

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