"H. S. Lahman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Never throw an exception. And if someone throws one at you, > > catch it immediately and don't pass it on. > > IMO, this is generally fine advice. Languages provide exception > handlers so that applications have a chance to respond gracefully when > the software is in an unstable state. IOW, you should never see an > exception unless the software is seriously broken. A corollary is that > if the software is corrupted, then even processing the exception becomes > high risk. So one should do as little as possible when processing > exceptions. (Some languages provide a degree of bullet proofing, but > that just make the exception handling facility too expensive to use for > routine processing.)
This sounds like a very C++ view of the world. In Python, for example, exceptions are much more light weight and perfectly routine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
