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> That's pretty condescending.

Nope! Exceptions are, in fact, rarely understood and used correctly by most programmers. Including loopz. And me. And the authors of approximately every nontrivially-exception-using piece of code I've had to work with. And presumably also of the code loopz has had to work with.

The difference is that some of us have the good sense to rarely use exceptions at all.



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