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Message: [QUOTE="Rui Maciel, post: 5025262"] I was pointing out that it is bad form to try to shoe-horn exceptions as control structures, and therefore it isn't a good idea to depict this sort of use as reasonable or acceptable, let alone elegant. As a control structure, exceptions are like a rube goldberg machine, and it isn't a good idea to advertise rube goldberg machines as something other than entertaining gimicks. They may be cleverly built, they may work, but there are plenty of alternatives which are far simpler, efficient and easier to maintain. Rui Maciel [/QUOTE]