Is there a name for this anti-pattern/code smell?

Question

Let me start by saying that I do not advocate this approach, but I saw it recently and I was wondering if there was a name for it I could use to point the guilty party to. So h

Answer 1

How about the "Can't decide whether this is an error or not" pattern. Seems like if you really had an exception but wanted to return a partial result, you'd wrap the result in the exception.