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I'm confused, what is the alternative here? I expect the IDE to stop when an exception is not handled. Should it stop even if it is?

• MaulingMonkey 12y ago
  There's an option for that in Visual Studio. It's not enabled by default, but I've found it handy for situations like this. The other alternative is what C# 6 added: eliminating the need to rethrow in as many circumstances in the first place, so 'logically' unhandled exceptions can be actually unhandled.
• Someone 12y ago
  Separate exception catching from stack unwinding as in the Lisp condition system, where low-level code decides when to call high-level code and what options to present it, and the high-level code does whatever it wants to do and then picks an option. That more or less gives you what Microsoft calls 'edit and continue' in every program, where your high-level code decides what code does the edit and decides on how to continue. Some discussion with real-world usage scenarios at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1544 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1544. Example at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispRestartExample http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispRestartExample
• Pxtl 12y ago
  Why should a rethrow be semantically any different from an uncaught exception? I would expect the rethrow keyword to be "pretend I didn't catch this".