On Friday, 8 March 2013 at 18:56:38 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 3/8/13, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
In both cases, you're telling it to catch everything.
Also, catch points should be rare, especially the ones which
catch
base types like Exception or even Error or Throwable. The
problem is
not the syntax, but the way people use exceptions. Pokemon
exception
handling is a bad idiom.
I've given this a fair amount of thought in the past, and I've
have extensive experience with making good use out of error
handling for managing large code bases that require near real
time automated monitoring for defects and rapid repair. My needs
may be much more unique than most.
What I will say, is that unless you use an exception handler, and
have a well designed exception handling system in place, you will
have plenty of problems making use out of frequent try/catch
blocks. They may in fact cause more problems than they solve. In
a small non essential code base, it may seem pointless as well.
So beware that what is good or bad depends entirely on the
implementation and the needs.
--rt
