The idea of exceptions is to catch them where you would handle them. If your code is catching to re-throw, catching to add a header and then rethrow, or catchin

The idea of exceptions is to catch them where you would handle them. If your code is catching to re-throw, catching to add a header and then rethrow, or catching to revert back to rcode-style error handling, then you aren't using try/catch to its most practical potential. With this philosophy in mind I've never been overburdened by try/catch littering my code.