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Exception handling mechanisms provide a structured way to deal with exceptional circumstances, making it easier to read and reason about programs. Exception handling, however, cannot avoid the problem that the transfer of control might leave the program in an inconsistent state—resources might leak, invariants might be violated, the program state might be changed. Since client code often needs to...