Why are empty catch blocks a bad idea? [closed]

Answer 1

I think it's okay if you catch a particular exception type of which you know it's only going to be raised for one particular reason, and you expect that exception and really don't need to do anything about it.

But even in that case, a debug message might be in order.

Answer 2

Because if an exception is thrown you won't ever see it - failing silently is the worst possible option - you'll get erroneous behavior and no idea to look where it's happening. At least put a log message there! Even if it's something that 'can never happen'!