Why should I not wrap every block in "try"-"catch"?

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Published on 2010-04-29T12:43:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 12:57 UTC
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I have always been of the belief that if a method can throw an exception then it is reckless not to protect this call with a meaningful try block.

I just posted 'You should ALWAYS wrap calls that can throw in try, catch blocks.' to this question and was told that it was 'remarkably bad advice' - I'd like to understand why.

Thanks!

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