Exception Handling (when to use it)

[Luis Motta Campos]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Ovid wrote:
> Side note:  some Java programmers who understand exceptions may  
> still be leery about using them for things that Perl programmers  
> wouldn't because in Java, exceptions can be very expensive to throw  
> and catch (the reasons were explained in detail to me once, but I  
> was too stupid to remember it).  Keep that in mind if you ask Java  
> programmers about exceptions.

   Hum. It seems that there is something connected to the context- 
changing... and, also, there is all those class-type testing to  
figure out which exception class you're handling. It's obviuosly slow  
even for me (totally clueless about Java).

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Luis Motta Campos (a.k.a. Monsieur Champs) is a software engineer,
Perl fanatic evangelist, and amateur {cook, photographer}