Re: Readability of exception handling

I agree with everything Richard writes, *except* the preamble:

From: Richard A. O'Keefe <[email protected]>
>Exception handling in any programming language is paradoxical.

>You need to wrap an exception handler about code <<C>>
>because you do not trust <<C>> to work properly.
>But on the other hand, you *DO* trust <<C>> to do so
>very little damage to its environment that it is safe
>to continue.


I believe it is best to consider the exceptions as *part*
of "working properly".  I trust the code, and I understand 
there are situations beyond the usual success/failure modes
that need handling.

(Of course I may be overly optimistic in my level of trust, 
but code can equally screw up without throwing exceptions.)