Re: best practice: error handling

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 05/31/2011 01:02 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
> Again, the point is valid, but the example is not good. Zero index is as
> good as Index_Result. In both cases an attempt to use the index will cause
> an exception. So both return an "invalid index."

Hardly. Some valid and fairly common uses include getting the part of Source 
before or after Pattern, both of which can succeed with an invalid result with 
an index of zero.

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