[bjarneh]

> it is easy to be a cause of error and just throw the exception, then expect up the stack to handle it.

Agree, this can happen. Perhaps the bad attempt at fixing this in Java for instance - checked exceptions, made people dislike exceptions ever more. The caller "has to handle" the exceptions or re-throw them of course. Even though RuntimeException's can come from anywhere at anytime, so "guard" provided by checked exceptions just made a complete mess of things. People are lulled into thinking that methods without the 'throws BlaBlaException' signature are safe and so on.

I guess no language is 100% on everything, but I've always felt that exceptions are one thing I really like; especially when a language manages to do them correctly.