On 6/7/06, Tim Starling
<t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
Assuming
this is a general question not specifically related to
MediaWiki, the general answer is that exceptions should only be used
for exceptional circumstances, and likely failures are better off
handled with return codes. It's better to use exceptions for weird
things like running out of memory, suddenly being unable to access the
disk, or an assertion failing, rather than something as banal as a bad
filename being supplied, for instance.
Do you have some sort of justification for this view?