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Is throwing an exception an anti-pattern here?
I just had a discussion over a design choice after a code review. I wonder what your opinions are.
There's this Preferences class, which is a bucket for key-value pairs. Null values are legal (that'...
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Wrapping specific checked exception in domain unchecked ones? [duplicate]
Uncle Bob says in Clean Code book that Unchecked Exceptions should be used. Now JDK has some checked exceptions: IOException, IllegalAccessException etc. which cannot be avoided.
In my application ...
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Efficient try / catch block usage?
Should catch blocks be used for writing logic i.e. handle flow control etc? Or just for throwing exceptions? Does it effect efficiency or maintainability of code?
What are the side effects (if there ...
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How to teach Exception Handling for New Programmers? [closed]
How do you go about teaching Exception Handling to Programmers. All other things are taught easily - Data Structures, ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF, WCF - you name it, everything can be taught easily.
With ...
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