Why catch an exception as reference-to-const?

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You need:

  • a reference so you can access the exception polymorphically
  • a const to increase performance, and tell the compiler you’re not going to modify the object

The latter is not as much important as the former, but the only real reason to drop const would be to signal that you want to do changes to the exception (usually useful only if you want to rethrow it with added context into a higher level).

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