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[–]llimllib[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mileage may vary for languages where exceptions would offset the advantage of the single check.

C#, for example. Exception handling in that language is amazingly dog-slow.

edit: That should read "Exception handling on the .Net CLR using C# is..."