(re)throwing exceptions

Hi Folks! What do you think about re-throwing an Exception? I think of a situation when writing a complex framework and one call on a lower hierachy level throws an Exception, the higher levels should be able to get to know. If I have to catch it on a higher level, I can't leave the caught Exception as is just adding my current context to the stack trace. Sometimes you need something like that. VB.NET for example allows you something like: Public Sub foo() Try ... Catch e AS NastyException ... throw End Try End Sub Best Regards Dennis Sterzenbach