You can set up a global exception handler in some frameworks. By having multiple (not a crazy amount) of exceptions, you can set up logic for how to handle that kind of error. Then you can just throw the exception instead of writing individual catch blocks.

This is especially helpful in things like a REST API where user input can cause all kinds of fun, let alone network issues, problems with your data source, etc.

This is like Dalinar and the fighting master from Stormlight Archive.

That’s why you set the alternate/exit cases as individual if statements before whatever was going to be inside the original if block.

To me too long to learn that.

Are you kidding? That’s very on brand for Janeway.