Brilliant exception handling I found in an app i had to work on
I'm offended that you'd put my code on the internet.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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Actually, exception rethrowing is a real thing - at least in Java. You may not always want to handle the exception at the absolute lowest level, so sometimes you will instead "bubble" the exception up the callstack. This in turn can help with centralizing exception handling, separation of concerns, and making your application more modular.
It seems counter-intuitive but it's actually legit, again at least in Java. lol
Rethrowing caught exception in C# is just throw;, not throw ex;. This will delete old stack trace, which is very punishable if someone debugs your code later and you're still around.
Seen this so many times, i weep for humanity
Looks like there was a Console.WriteLine(ex) previously. When removed, the thought "Yeah, exception handling is important" came up. So yes, this could be mine
This can't compile, can it? Only a madman commits code which doesn't compile.
Why wouldn't it? It's syntactically valid C#, with the added bonus of destroying the stack trace
while (true) {
start();
}