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# no-throw-cr-literal
This is similar to the ESLint built-in rule no-throw-literal. It disallows
throwing Components.results code directly.
Throwing bare literals is inferior to throwing Exception objects, which provide
stack information. Cr.ERRORs should be be passed as the second argument to
`Components.Exception()` to create an Exception object with stack info, and
the correct result property corresponding to the NS_ERROR that other code
expects.
Using a regular `new Error()` to wrap just turns it into a string and doesn't
set the result property, so the errors can't be recognised.
This option can be autofixed (`--fix`).
```js
performance.timing.navigationStart + performance.now()
```
Often timing relative to the page load is adequate and that conversion may not
be necessary.
## Examples of incorrect code for this rule
```js
throw Cr.NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED;
throw Components.results.NS_ERROR_ABORT;
throw new Error(Cr.NS_ERROR_NO_INTERFACE);
```
## Examples of correct code for this rule
```js
throw Components.Exception("Not implemented", Cr.NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED);
```