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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Exception problem
Date: 1997/02/25
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Larry Coon <larry@fs2.assist.uci.edu> writes:

>My concern is not so much related to performance as it is to the
>general  axiom (at least in C++) that exception handling is meant for
>truly exceptional events, and that invalid input just doesn't qualify. 
>The general rule in C++ is that exception handling shouldn't be used for
>input validation.

I don't think this "axiom" is universally accepted in the C++ community.

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