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titzertoday at 3:31 PM1 replyview on HN

For fillInStackTrace, another trick is to define your own Exception subclass and override the method to be empty. I learned this trick 15+ years ago.

It doesn't excuse the "use exceptions for control flow" anti-pattern, but it is a quick patch.


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ivan_gammeltoday at 5:32 PM

God, please make me unsee it. That‘s a cool trick that turns into an anti-pattern itself if abused.