>but in practice the exception is often eaten by too-generic except blocks in library code and never reaches user code Interesting, C# has a special case for t

>but in practice the exception is often eaten by too-generic except blocks in library code and never reaches user code Interesting, C# has a special case for this: >ThreadAbortException is a special exception that can be caught, but it will automatically be raised again at the end of the catch block.