Discussion on: What's the weirdest coding practice you've seen?

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Years ago I received an old C# legacy project where every method was catching all exceptions inside it, wrapping them in a new Exception, and rethrowing them:

void Foo(...)
{
    try
    {
        // ...
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw new Exception("Exception thrown at Foo", e);
    }
}

void Bar(...)
{
    try
    {
        // ...
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw new Exception("Exception thrown at Bar", e);
    }
}

void Baz(...)
{
    try
    {
        // ...
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw new Exception("Exception thrown at Foo", e);
    }
}

Michiel Hendriks • Apr 17 '18

Like Pokemon Exception Handling, and then releasing them again...

rhymes • Apr 14 '18

AHAHHAHAHA