Is there any reason we have both exceptions and exception-handling?
Imho, the latter should be merged into the former, or at least synonymized, as there's no relevant difference between their topics.
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I suppose you could argue exception throwing and exception handling are two separate activities...but I can't imagine how you'd ask a question about one and not the other. Agree with merging.– IxrecNov 24, 2015 at 16:40
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A quick look at the Exceptions tag makes me think there might be some valid questions about Exceptions themselves that wouldn't really make sense being tagged with exception-handling. For example, if/when to create your own exceptions, or to inherit from them, or using them as event arguments etc– RachelNov 24, 2015 at 16:42
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1@Rachel: That would be tagged exceptions, and maybe class-design or inheritance - depending on the specifics.– DeduplicatorNov 24, 2015 at 16:45
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1@Deduplicator Oops, I read this as merging exceptions into exception-handling. Yes it would probably make sense to merge exception-handling into exceptions :)– RachelNov 24, 2015 at 16:46
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1@Rachel: Yes, this time I didn't swap them... (though I had to look at it once more to be sure).– DeduplicatorNov 24, 2015 at 16:49
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The synonym suggestion has been placed in the system. It now needs a couple of (up) votes at https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/exceptions/synonyms to take effect.
answered Nov 25, 2015 at 9:15
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1It took me forever to remember where you go to vote on this, so to save everyone else some time: programmers.stackexchange.com/tags/exceptions/synonyms– IxrecNov 26, 2015 at 7:31