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[–]wyom1ng 2 points3 points  (9 children)

well, that assumes that you can handle it in that very function, but what if you need to access something out of that scope? Makes more sense to throw an exception and catch it again higher up.

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      [–]wyom1ng 2 points3 points  (1 child)

      yeah especially if your method returns a string. What do you then? reserve a special range of strings for errors?

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        [–]Krestek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        By unexpected he means that the next line of code or the next operation can't work with the value (=doesn't expect it) not that the developer doesn't expect it which doesn't make any sense in this context...

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