From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-06-19T06:11:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Rather validate values or use exceptions?


On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Joshua Muheim wrote:

> After googling for Race Condition I guess I know now what this should
> be, but I don't know how to avoid it...? Any suggestions? :-)

try to find it, if it doesn't race an exception you're all good.   
rescue the exception when not found if that makes sense.  in  
otherwords basically your second approach.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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