Exceptions for flow of control

Question

There is an interesting post over here about this, in relation to cross-application flow of control.

Well, recently, I\'ve come across an interesting problem. Gener

Answer 1

Using exceptions in normal program flow in my book is one of the worst practises ever. Consider the poor sap who is hunting for swallowed exceptions and is running a debugger set to stop whenever an exception happens. That dude is now getting mad.... and he has an axe. :P