From: "klancaster1957@..." <klancaster1957@...>
Date: 2005-11-08T00:17:11+09:00
Subject: Re: programming best practices

Lyndon Samson wrote:


> Also, error conditions are usually best signalled with exceptions,
> which sort of make checking return values redundant.


That is true as long as the error condition is truly an exception (disk
error, memory, file IO error, etc.). Using exceptions as control flow
is not a good idea - very expensive generally and not  true to the
intent of exceptions.

Keith