14. try and catch

• If exception propagates to the root of the application, the system architect has probably done a poor job of design and the program will probably crash.

• To use exceptions, programmers need to write special blocks of code designated by the keywords try and catch:

  
      try {
          // possible nasty code
      } catch(Exception e) {
          // code to handle the exception
      }
  
  

• See also: C++ Exceptions