I've heard "Please do the needful", before which apparently is the East Indian equivalent of "Please drop everything; bend over backwards; and help me even though I don't know what I'm exactly asking for."
I've never heard "Please be needful." Can you explain what that means?
Anyway, in general, read Eric Lippert's various discussions about exceptions.
Joel and Ned are having a spirited debate over the merits of exception handling. Oddly enough, I agree with both of them. The only time I do programming in C++ is to write COM code, and COM and exc…
Writing good error handling code is hard in any language, whether you have exception handling or not. When I’m thinking about what exception handling I need to implement in a given program, I…
ericlippert.com
He has many others about the topic, but this should get you started thinking about various issues.
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