# Exception masking

Term `exception-masking`. The layer that can recover hides details its callers do not need.

Practitioner: Ousterhout. Read in: *A Philosophy of Software Design*, §10.6 Mask Exceptions; §10.10 Taking It Too Far.

## Skills
- [uncomplect](/skills/uncomplect)

## Sources
- Ousterhout, John. *A Philosophy of Software Design*. 2018. [Link](https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/book.php). ([b10-a-philosophy-of-software-design](/bibliography#b10-a-philosophy-of-software-design))