Re: To wrap or not to wrap?

On Thu, 8 May 2008 15:19:42 -0700 (PDT), Aaron Fude
<aaronfude@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>etc. These functions catch exceptions and return null if something
>goes wrong. I have other functoins that, for example, load database
>queries into maps.

You are thinking in C.  The advantage of exceptions is you can handle
them at any level that is convenient.  By returning null, you force an
explicit check, and you must handle the problem then and there or else
explicitly pass the problem up the call chain.
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