It's supposed to work like that, but it's a lot easier to screw up. Smart people screw it up all the time, and it's hard to spot in code review, whereas averag

It's supposed to work like that, but it's a lot easier to screw up. Smart people screw it up all the time, and it's hard to spot in code review, whereas average programmers have no problem avoiding swallowing exceptions once they realize it's important, and if they do mess up it stands out like a sore thumb in the code.