Is there a benefit to JUST a “throw” in a catch?

Question

Been having a \"heated debate\" with a colleague about his practice of wrapping most of his functions in a try/catch but the catch has JUST a \"throw\" in it e.g.

Answer 1

The reason you have a lone throw inside a catch rather than throwing a new exception is because this causes the original stack trace/exception data to be preserved. And one reason you might do this is because you can now set a break-point there for debugging.