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Hey, sometimes I compile with the expectation of error, just to make sure that the right error comes out.

Same here. I call it Error Driven Development.

This reminds me of assembly language in college... Each assignment we were told to end the program on a different type of ABEND ("for this assignment I want you to generate a SOC8, integer overflow" etc, etc...)

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