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by TeMPOraL 4088 days ago
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!".