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

Why not just return the resulting value? If it returns anything at all, assume it is successful. If it fails to return a value, then it means the loop failed.

If you must bring back from a failure, then I'd recommend you throw an exception.