Using exceptions (Re: distinguishing between failures and errors)

> J. B. Rainsberger wrote:
> 
> >>I can eliminate that fear using checked exceptions.
> >>
> >
> >But at what cost! :) You become bound by the shackles of annoying 
impediments 
> >to refactoring! No, say I! Let all my code be easily-refactorable!
> >
> >At least, that's what I try for.
> >
> 
> I haven't found checked exceptions to be impediments to refactoring. 
>  Then again, I don't throw exceptions all that often.

I am trying to do it less, myself, in order to verify for myself that that is 
the root problem.

> I can certainly appreciate how they might become annoying in the 
> face of change.  I try not to get to that point.  

I need to overhaul my thinking on how to use exceptions. I have to take the 
stuff I read on Ward's Wiki and put it to use somewhere. Perhaps this summer, 
while I'm sharpening the saw and waiting for the next contract.

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