Perhaps you can educate me on your better reasoning, but the only purpose I can see for an empty try block is to limit the scope of variables in a method. Quite

Perhaps you can educate me on your better reasoning, but the only purpose I can see for an empty try block is to limit the scope of variables in a method. Quite frankly, if you find yourself in need of artificially limiting the scope of variables in a method, you've probably done too much in the method and need to refactor. Try block are for just that, trying something you know ahead of time might fail. There's no point in using the try paradigm if you don't also intend to handle the expected failure.