Add section warning against catching Throwables#264
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I agree with the advice Noah wants to add here (even tho' I'm guilty of catching BTW, I've fixed the codespell failure on the main branch (ignore |
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I rebased on master to fix the spelling mistake. |
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Looks good to me as well. Sorry for the slow turnaround here. |
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I've noticed that many Clojure programmers use
(catch Throwable t ...)as a means of not dealing with Exceptions. However, this is poor Java practice given that Errors are generally treated as "the application should fail" situations. As such, I think it would be nice to have a recommendation against using(catch Throwable t ...)alongside a nudge towards using explicit Error and Exception classes in catch clauses.cf: Blind Rescues in the Ruby Style Guide, the recommendation of the Java Docs on Errors.