[mhomde]

Or just supress it, for some methods you might want to return a null value/"null object"/bool rather than have an exception cascade up the chain and risk crashing the application. I think Exceptions are a bit problematic as a concept but then again so are null values :)

An easy example are checking if a file exists under Windows 8, it's partly a product of the currently deficient API's but the fastest way to check if a file exists is to try to get it and catch the exception, and you'd want to return bool from a FileExists method

[TeMPOraL]

After many years I still don't really grok the idea behind exceptions, and I get this feeling that I'm not alone with that. There probably is an extremely smart idea supporting this whole "handle all errors with exceptions" style, but I haven't seen any good explanation yet; instead what I see most often is a case of Stockholm syndrome - "it's in the language, it's The $LANGUAGE Style, it must be Good!".