and the developers reason for this is that he made it in a week(hackathon style) and he doesn't have time to comment it out
It's kind of irritating because he knows the code base better than anyone. It took me like two hours to wrap my head around this one php script he had.
"Exception handling is the process of responding to the occurrence, during computation, of exceptions – anomalous or exceptional events requiring special processing – often changing the normal flow of program execution."