[Tutor] Re: converting string to a number

[Andrei]

nik <my.mailing.lists <at> noos.fr> writes:

> Thanks for the advice guys, I hadn't thought of what would happen if it 
> wasn't the exception you were expecting. It still feels uncomfortable 
> though, I've always felt an exception is *exceptional*, ie something 
> that was outside your control. 

The name is misleading :). You do need to be careful with them though, because
they have the potential of hiding problems and/or making them difficult to solve
when you use them *too* liberally (particularly generic try-excepts over large
pieces of code).

Yours,

Andrei