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Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> writes:

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>
>> > > The point is that you catch such exceptions as early as possible.
>> > 
>> > Wrong! Absolute rubbish, sorry. You catch exceptions where best
>> > handled and that may well be further up the call stack. It always
>> > depends on the situation, there is no such golden hammer for exception
>> > handling like "as early as possible".

umm.. well actually there is clear recommendation to "fail fast"...

Here is an essay from Martin Fowler's web site explaining quite
eloquently why...

http://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/failFast.pdf

<snip>

>  
> Kind regards,
> Wanja

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