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Disallow throwing literals as exceptions.

It is considered good practice to only `throw` the `Error` object itself or an
object using the `Error` object as base objects for user-defined exceptions. The
fundamental benefit of `Error` objects is that they automatically keep track of
where they were built and originated.

**Invalid:**

```typescript
throw "error";
throw 0;
throw undefined;
throw null;
```

**Valid:**

```typescript
throw new Error("error");
```