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May 2014 - Developer Support

So many exceptions… but only one can throw

May 13, 2014 May 13, 2014 05/13/14
Andrew Arnott
When a method may throw for more than one reason, the thoughtful programmer might ask “which exception should be thrown?”Consider a method which performs argument validation, is cancelable, and also might throw based on the state of the object. What order should these validations occur so that the best exception is thrown? Here is ...