throwing exceptions

[thedougster]

The documentation I've found is a little hazy on this subject, so it's time to fire off yet another no-doubt ignorant question:

Is "throw" intended exclusively for the following scenario: Control is transferred out of a try block via a method call, and code in the called method then detects an exception, so the called method uses "throw" to transfer control back to the appropriate catch block associated with the original try block?

 

[jmeckley]

not sure about the academic answer, but the practical answer is throw; and throw new Exception(...); are used to set the starting point of a stack trace to locate the exception.

there are rules/guidelines for how best to work with exceptions, but i don't think that's what your asking.


Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.