e_howdidIdeservethis

A friend has found himself supporting a stack of code written in this style:

DECLARE
   e_dupe_flag EXCEPTION;
   PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(e_dupe_flag, -1);

BEGIN
   ...

EXCEPTION
   WHEN e_dupe_flag THEN
      RAISE e_duplicate_err;

  etc...

Because, as he says, coding is not hard enough.

This reminded me of one that was sent in a while ago:

others EXCEPTION;

"I didn't know you could do that" adds our correspondent.