正如在其他回答中所述，只有在可以对异常进行某种合理的错误处理时才应该捕获异常。

例如，在生成您的问题的问题中，提问者询问忽略从整数到字符串的lexical_cast异常是否安全。这样的阵容永远不会失败。如果它失败了，说明程序中出现了严重的错误。在这种情况下，你能做些什么来恢复呢?最好的方法可能是让程序死亡，因为它处于不可信任的状态。因此，不处理异常可能是最安全的做法。

As Mitch and others stated, you shouldn't catch an exception that you do not plan on handling in some way. You should consider how the application is going to systematically handle exceptions when you are designing it. This usually leads to having layers of error handling based on the abstractions - for example, you handle all SQL-related errors in your data access code so that the part of the application that is interacting with domain objects is not exposed to the fact that there is a DB under the hood somewhere.

除了“在任何地方捕获所有东西”的味道之外，还有一些相关的代码味道是您一定要避免的。

"catch, log, rethrow": if you want scoped based logging, then write a class that emits a log statement in its destructor when the stack is unrolling due to an exception (ala std::uncaught_exception()). All that you need to do is declare a logging instance in the scope that you are interested in and, voila, you have logging and no unnecessary try/catch logic. "catch, throw translated": this usually points to an abstraction problem. Unless you are implementing a federated solution where you are translating several specific exceptions into one more generic one, you probably have an unnecessary layer of abstraction... and don't say that "I might need it tomorrow". "catch, cleanup, rethrow": this is one of my pet-peeves. If you see a lot of this, then you should apply Resource Acquisition is Initialization techniques and place the cleanup portion in the destructor of a janitor object instance.

我认为充斥着try/catch块的代码是代码评审和重构的好目标。它表明要么异常处理没有被很好地理解，要么代码已经变成了无用的，急需重构。

我听到过的最好的建议是，您应该只在可以对异常条件采取措施的情况下捕获异常，而“捕获、记录和释放”并不是一个好策略(如果在库中偶尔不可避免的话)。

我同意你的问题的基本方向，即在最低级别处理尽可能多的异常。

一些现有的回答是这样的:“您不需要处理异常。别人会在上面做的。”根据我的经验，这是一个不考虑当前开发的代码段异常处理的糟糕借口，让异常处理其他人或以后的问题。

在分布式开发中，这个问题会急剧增加，在分布式开发中，您可能需要调用由同事实现的方法。然后，您必须检查嵌套的方法调用链，以找出他/她为什么向您抛出一些异常，这在嵌套最深的方法中可以更容易地处理。

除了上面的建议，我个人使用尝试+抓+扔的方法;原因如下:

At boundary of different coder, I use try + catch + throw in the code written by myself, before the exception being thrown to the caller which is written by others, this gives me a chance to know some error condition occured in my code, and this place is much closer to the code which initially throw the exception, the closer, the easier to find the reason. At the boundary of modules, although different module may be written my same person. Learning + Debug purpose, in this case I use catch(...) in C++ and catch(Exception ex) in C#, for C++, the standard library does not throw too many exception, so this case is rare in C++. But common place in C#, C# has a huge library and an mature exception hierarchy, the C# library code throw tons of exception, in theory I(and you) should know every exceptions from the function you called, and know the reason/case why these exception being thrown, and know how to handle them(pass by or catch and handle it in-place)gracefully. Unfortunately in reality it's very hard to know everything about the potential exceptions before I write one line of code. So I catch all and let my code speak aloud by logging(in product environment)/assert dialog(in development environment) when any exception really occurs. By this way I add exception handling code progressively. I know it conflit with good advice but in reality it works for me and I don't know any better way for this problem.

Herb Sutter在这里写过这个问题。绝对值得一读。 摘要:

"Writing exception-safe code is fundamentally about writing 'try' and 'catch' in the correct places." Discuss. Put bluntly, that statement reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of exception safety. Exceptions are just another form of error reporting, and we certainly know that writing error-safe code is not just about where to check return codes and handle error conditions. Actually, it turns out that exception safety is rarely about writing 'try' and 'catch' -- and the more rarely the better. Also, never forget that exception safety affects a piece of code's design; it is never just an afterthought that can be retrofitted with a few extra catch statements as if for seasoning.