Both Java and Ruby have relatively sophisticated exception handling built-in to the respective languages. Their exception handling techniques have many similarities, but also have some differences in ...

The .NET Framework Design Guidelines has this to say about reporting errors: "DO NOT return errors codes. ... "DO report execution failures by throwing exceptions. If a member cannot successfully do ...

An exception, simply put, is something going wrong during the course of program execution. Exception handling is the term used to describe how the program will deal with these exceptions. When an ...

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...