[TheMonarchist]

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/basic_ios/exceptions

[YATA0]

That is manually throwing an exception if the file doesn't exist.

C++ stdlib does not throw an exception if a file does not exist. I agree with this philosophy because files not existing isn't an exceptional case.

[jcelerier]

Damn, in all those years I've absolutely never come across this, thanks