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On Error Resume Next is like if every statement was automatically wrapped in a try/catch that ignores the error. Obviously there are some cases where it makes

On Error Resume Next is like if every statement was automatically wrapped in a try/catch that ignores the error. Obviously there are some cases where it makes sense to ignore errors, but doing it unconditionally for all errors is horrible.

bonzini 5y ago
You could still examine the Err variable to see if an error happened.
- msbarnett 5y ago
  Yeah, the legions of VB programmers who just wrote On Error Resume Next at the beginning of the file and never looked back weren’t keen on doing that, either.