catch-block

I have recently gotten into a discussion over raise vs. throw . There is another SO thread discussing this , and the pundits summarized the situation as this: Throw and raise are, to a great degree, interchangeable Advantage of throw is that you can throw easily anything, and that you don't waste time putting together the stack trace That leaves me with a question, why nobody is actually using throw in Ruby? The thread discussed earlier mentioned use of catch / throw in Sinatra to handle HTTP error codes, but still, I have seen very few catch / throw examples in the wild, and I only used it in

Is the ANR an exception, an error or what? Can we actually catch it in a try{} catch(){} structure? rogerstone ANR (Application Not Responding) is not exactly an error. It is shown when your application is very sluggish and takes a lot of time to respond, thus making the user wait. The user won't appreciate if your application makes them wait for a long time. So, the Android framework gives the user an option of closing your application. http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/responsiveness.html This occurs when you are doing long running operations on the main thread. The system

First of all, a disclaimer: I have experience in other languages, but am still learning the subtleties of C# On to the problem... I am looking at some code, which uses the try/catch blocks in a way that concerns me. When a parsing routine is called, rather than return an error code, the programmer used the following logic catch (TclException e) { throw new TclRuntimeError("unexpected TclException: " + e.Message,e); } This is caught by the caller, which throws the same error ... ... which is caught by the caller, which throws the same error ... ..... which is caught by the caller, which throws