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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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GeneralEverywhere a single Catch block used catching top Exception all times. Pin
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Rob Grainger24-Jun-13 0:02
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cjb110 wrote:
Also is a try/catch block 'free' of any performance/memory penalty?


It should be, certainly is in C++, and I'd imagine most later languages have been sensible enough to copy that implementation. Throwing exceptions has a definite overhead, but probably no more than writing the error code manually.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.

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