Try

[Richard Gaskin]

David Bovill wrote:
> Good to know its fast, but I guess my concern is that a "try" statement
> would slow down each line of a script, and so the speed hit would be a
> factor of how long the script was.
> 
> Not sure why, but I always assumed it would work a bit like debugging or
> using the "do" statement and significantly slow things down, so I've not
> used it to wrap long complex scripts.

It would probably take only a few minutes to benchmark it, having two 
loops timed which are identical except that one of them has a try-catch 
in it.

If you take a moment to benchmark it please post the results.

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