Style question: returning error values from functions

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:

>> I readily use throw in scripts for my own use.  I also have used it in
>> a library I will make generally available, and I'm thinking of changing
>> the scripts so that they do not throw.  Are people comfortable with
>> throw?
> 
> Yes, I was just about to suggest it to Richard. I think this is an under
> used language feature. Unfortunalty Scott designed the engine throws to
> require considerable parsing of the error variable to determine the problem
> so you need to handle the possibility of an engine throw. One advatage of
> throws is that they continue through the heirarchy until they are handled. I
> also find that scripts that use try/catch control structures are far clearer
> to read.

Throw wins. 

Good discussion.  Thanks.

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