Re: Introspect whether setCharacterEncoding is present..

|
| - there is a computation cost to throwing them
|   Though exceptions are often highly optimized, depsite what some people
|   in that google search seem to think. This is because most VMs are
|   written in C and an exception can be implemented as a
|   longjmp. Certainly, unix longjmp's are very fast.

longjump or not - that's NOT the question! They have to be allocated, and
-filled in-. That is the problem. Not the control flow as such.

|
| - there is no other non-local exit feature
|   Unlike in C++ which still has longjmp left over from C.

Use booleans and ifs. Unless it is in a non-critical path, then do
whatever you like. However, in a non-critical path, one may write how bad
code one desires, as it'll execute very seldom.

|
|
| So what is it about the above that means that exceptions should not be
| used for control flow?

The time it takes to =make the Exception=, which wasn't mentioned in your
list!

|
| Is it just because someone decided that exceptions should not be used
| for control flow? Because if that's the case you can carry on writing
| programs your way and I'll write good ones  /8->

Haha!

Endre



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