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From: randhol+nospam@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 2000/06/02
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:31:06 GMT, Jeff Carter wrote:

>and signal an invalid string by raising an exception. Whether you agree
>that raising an exception is appropriate, why would you write another
>subprogram to parse a string for a floating-point value when you can
>reuse these existing, robust, and well-tested subprograms?

I agree with you.

I guess one can draw from the answers (thanks all) that one should not
use exceptions to guide the flow of the program when one can use an if
instead.

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Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/>
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