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Error handling is important when creating PowerShell scripts. A script that runs correctly once may not run correctly every time. There always seems to be some kind ...

While working on a recent project, I found a piece of code that performed resource cleanup. Because it had many diverse calls, it could potentially throw six different exceptions. The original ...

Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own ...

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