> I agree with Peter Ritchie that Mark Brooks' documentation on 

Thanks.. and it is Marc ;)

> therefore it should not be re-thrown. For example, if I caught a
> System.IO.FileNotFoundException and then I prompted the user to show me
> where the file was located, this would be a case where catching an exception
> without re-throwing is the correct thing to do

Not to speak for Peter, but his point was SPECIFICALLY about Exception
(the generic "I don't know what happened" case).  You shouldn't be
catching Exception, you should be catching FileNotFoundException (and
various rights violations things), not Exception.

-- 
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the
opposite."  –John Kenneth Gailbraith

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