Why exceptions for error handling is so important

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2015-01-12 at 09:54 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> Yeah, exceptions are supposed to be ... well, *exceptions*, rather 
> than the norm. :-) If you're using exceptions to do flow control, 
> you're doing something wrong.
> 
[…]

Unless you are writing Python code.

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