Category Exception

The purpose of this category is to facilitate finding information about the use of Exceptions for Error Handling and other purposes. Pages in this category have been hierarchically organized below to make it easier to find pages relevant to particular interests. Note that there are somewhat different categorizations on the pages Exception Patterns and Exception Handling.

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Arguments for Exceptions

Exceptions Are Our Friends

Use Exceptions Instead Of Error Values

Enhancements on Exceptions

Resumable Exception

Common Lisp Condition System

Arguments against Exceptions

Avoid Exceptions Whenever Possible

Code Without Exceptions

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Alternatives to Exceptions

Arrow Anti Pattern

Bottom Type / Bottom Propagation

Deferred Exception Object

Error Value (but see Use Exceptions Instead Of Error Values)

Exception Handling Challenge

Exception Reporter

Exceptional Value

Invisible Exception Handlers

Nil False Exceptions Failure

Pass An Error Handler

Refactor Extract Exception Handling To Aspect

Test In Advance

Transactions Vs Exceptions

You Dont Want An Exception You Wanta Time Machine

You Dont Want An Exception You Wanta Transaction

Exception Anti Patterns

Exception Funnel

Exceptions Mask Real Problems

Exception Patterns

What (and what not) to use exceptions for

Designing With Exceptions

Dont Use Exceptions For Flow Control

Exceptional Conditions

Exceptions As Constraints

Samurai Principle

With Your Shield Or On It

What types of exceptions to use, when

Avoid Implementation Specific Exceptions

Classifying Exceptions

Convert Exceptions

Dont Refine Exceptions / Generalize On Exception Behavior

Dont Throw Generic Exceptions

Exception Hierarchy

Exception Per Context

Homogenize Exceptions

Mask Exceptions Appropriately

Nested Exception

Name The Problem Not The Thrower

Refine Exceptions / Refined Exceptions

Unchecked Exception

When / where to throw and catch exceptions (When To Catch Exceptions / Exception Recovery)

Catch Exceptions In Loops

Empty Catch Clause

Exceptions Indicate Bugs (Misnamed Page)

Dont Catch Exceptions

Exception Handling Near Mainline

Handle Errors In Context

Abort Retry Ignore

Handling Exceptions As Early As Possible

Let Exceptions Propagate

Replace Empty Catch With Test

Separate Throw And Catch

Throw Dont Catch

Using exceptions in thread handling

Cancel Threads With An Exception

Exceptions Tidy Threads

Using exceptions with the Observer Pattern

Observers And Exceptions

Observers Should Never Throw Exceptions

Observers Throw Local Exceptions

Other exception patterns

Exceptions Cancel Transactions / Exceptions Cancel Operations

Exception Guarantee

Exception Logging

Exception Package

Tidy Up Before Throwing

Throw Your Own Exception

Use Identical Exception Handlers

Using Specific Exception Types

Language-specific advice

Exceptions in C++

Beware Of Exceptions In The Destructor

Dont Declare Thrown Exceptions

Exceptions In Java Are Different Than In Cee Plus Plus

Exceptions And Constructors

Exceptions in Java (Java Exception Handling)

Catch Dont Check

Catch Dont Check Refuted

Chained Exceptions

Check Dont Catch

Checked Exception

Checked Exception Patterns

Checked Exceptions Are Of Dubious Value

Class Cast Exception

Declare Throws Exception By Default

Dont Catch Runtime Exceptions

Exception Adapter

Exceptions In Java Are Different Than In Cee Plus Plus

Exception Tunneling

Illegal Argument Exception

Illegal State Exception

Interrupted Exception

Java Exception Question

Java Exceptions Are First Class Objects

Java Exceptions Are Particularly Evil

Java Exceptions Should Be Interfaces

Let Exceptions Propagate Only As Unchecked Exceptions

Messy Exception Hierarchy

Null Pointer Exception

Refactor Exception Handlers

Throws Exception

Throws Exception By Default

Throws Exception Declaration Does Not Consider Inheritance

Translate Exceptions

Unhandled Exception

Exceptions on Microsoft platforms

Structured Exception Handling

Exceptions in Perl (Exception Handling In Perl)

Exceptions in Smalltalk (Smalltalk And Exceptions)

Organized this page 6/11/2005 -- Aarre Laakso

(Nice job! I like the organization of this page. Thanks! -- Jeff Grigg)

Kudos! One suggestion I wish to float is to reduce the bullet level by one. Section headings don't really need to be bulleted.

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