From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-06-19T05:57:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Rather validate values or use exceptions? On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Joshua Muheim wrote: > When looking at it, the second one looks cleaner to me, but what would > you say? Maybe the first one is quite faster than the second one? the first method is a classic race condition. if you care about things like that use the second. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama