Walter Bright:
It's not a matter of taste. If your input is subject to a DoS attack, don't put exceptions in the control flow.
Perhaps the world of today malicious attacks on the software you write should be assumed as the default situation, and then the language+library has to offer something less paranoiac on request.
That's why some languages have changed their sorting and hashing routines to make them a little slower but safer on default.
Bye, bearophile
