Question:
I was told that in order to make my program easier to read, I shoulduse try to cover all of my program, then catch every exception at the endof the program. Does this make any sense?
Answer:
You should catch exceptions where you intend to handle them. It makesno sense to catch exceptions only at the end of a program when manyexceptions are recoverable. For example, network servers need to beable to recover from network I/O errors. You can only do this if youcatch exceptions at the point of an anticipated failure point. Butyou must ensure that you take proper fault-recovery steps. Only fatal andnon-recoverable exceptions resulting in the termination of the programshould be caught at the end of the program.
