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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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KP Lee3-Oct-11 19:16
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I was pushing the limits of an algorithm to find the limit of it's recursive processing. Then I put in a try/catch to gently and safely bring the app down when it failed. This isn't a bad error message, it's a failure in expectations. When it blew, it was supposed to write a formatted message in the catch block. When you get a stack overflow error/message, the app shuts down, no catch processing, no final executions, you're done, you're out. I thought try/catch was supposed to always catch failures.
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