Exception as the primary error handling mechanism?

[Dave Angel]

r0g wrote:
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>
> Maybe, although I recently learned on here that one can't rely on assert
>  statements in production code, their intended use is to aid debugging
> and testing really.
>
>   
Hopefully, what you learned is that you can't use assert() in production 
code to validate user data.  It's fine to use it to validate program 
logic, because that shouldn't still need testing in production.

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DaveA