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5.8 Throwing Exceptions
We may deliberately choose to cause an exception. We use the throw statement for
this.
We may define our own Exceptions and throw them.
Choose one or neither of the below:
• There is no point in doing this unless we carefully document the circumstances.
If we cannot be bothered to do this we should not bother creating
custom exceptions.
• Exceptions are self‐documenting mechanisms. It is bad practice to throw
someone else’s exception.
5.9 Policy on when to catch and when to throw
The business of which exceptions to catch is complex. There are often good reasons
to not catch exceptions. An uncaught exception will propagate back up the stack.
• The Cerebus system has a mechanism for dealing with exceptions.
• Comment from Nick
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