On Sep 7, 6:23 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > Does catching the exception not defeat the “Samurai Principle”? Read my comic: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SamuraiPrinciple Exceptions are very dangerous by themselves, because if you don't trap them just right they can cause side-effects. They are worse than GOTO.