>Out of curiosity, what's an actual example of code where the execution flow >of exceptions is significantly more surprising than the execution flow of a >billion manual checks to avoid "Fatal error: Call to a member function >foo() on a non-object"? > >I've heard the vague claim that exceptions are confusing for years, but for >the life of me I've never seen exception-handling code that looked more >complex or confusing than code riddled with checks for magic return values.
My experience has been similar. I personally prefer exceptions as they at least let me know in a highly visible way when I forget to do something about them, unlike magic return values which may cause problems which do not surface right away if a check is forgotten. Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
