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Error handling considerations

The problem: Since long time, I am worried about the exceptions mechanism, because I feel it does not really resolve what it should. CLAIM: There are long debates outside about this topic, and most ...
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Augment a thrown exception with some contextual information

The application this question is about is basically a transpiler which contains a lot of logic. The transpiler is written in C++ (which should not be much of relevance for this question), and it ...
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Should we only catch in exceptional circumstances?

Whether error handling by throwing exceptions is good or bad is contentious. Are exceptions as control flow considered a serious antipattern? If so, Why? The common line is that exceptions are for "...
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