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An exception is an occurrence in an application process that requires deviation from the program's normal flow.
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Is throwing an exception from a property bad form?
I would definitely argue that there is a flaw in the design if you feel the need to throw exceptions from a property setter or getter. … This does produce side effects, and may throw exceptions. But this property setter is basically just a wrapper around Stream.Seek that you could call instead. …
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Are exceptions as control flow considered a serious antipattern? If so, Why?
Using exceptions for control flow is generally considered an anti-pattern, but there are exceptions (no pun intended). … So, although exceptions are generally not used for control flow, your language of choice may have other idioms. …
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Is it okay to use exceptions as tools to "catch" errors early?
In general, yes, it is a good idea to "fail early". However, in your specific example, the explicit IllegalArgumentException does not provide a significant improvement over a NullReferenceException - …
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Why are F# exceptions generally not suffixed with 'Exception'?
Documentation*
exception MyError of string
The book 'Expert F# 3.0', co-authored by Don Syme, has an example that doesn't even seem to follow any idiom:
exception BlockedURL of string
Why don't custom exceptions …
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Checked vs Unchecked vs No Exception... A best practice of contrary beliefs
For a long time OO languages, the use of exceptions have been the de-facto standard for communicating errors. …
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