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>Some OCD person had repeated the same nonsense many thousands of times. The tool cleaned up the mess in seconds.

What were they doing?


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jiggawatts05/15/2025

try { ... } catch (Exception e) { throw e; }

That does nothing except add visual noise.

It's like a magic incantation to make the errors go away (it doesn't actually), probably by someone used to Visual Basic's "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT" or some such.