On 06 Feb 2012 at 20:51, Simon J Welsh <si...@welsh.co.nz> wrote: > On 7/02/2012, at 9:44 AM, Marco Behnke wrote: > >> Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams: >>> However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a function that >>> can fail in several different places (eg data validation, ...). But it >>> is reading a file which needs to be closed before the function >>> returns. I have seen code where some $IsError variable is tested in >>> many places to see if things should be done. That is just as bad as >>> lots of GOTO -- often when having to write something like that I will >>> have a GOTO (in >> >> Good code uses Exceptions and try catch for that kind of scenarios. > > Exceptions have a lot of overhead and should only be used in exceptional > circumstances. I don't see how data validation failing is an exceptional > circumstance. > > I find that using Exceptions and try/catch for something this trivial to be > more confusing and harder to read (thus worse code) than a goto. It is also > much easier to make a mistake, especially if you're expecting the catching to > happen outside of the validation function.
While it is true that try/catch adds another level just like an extra if-then-else, there are times when it's unavoidable. During initialisation of my app, I have to check which of the files in a directory may be SQLite databases that belong to the app. So I have to check: a) whether this file is an SQLite database b) whether it has the two tables I expect to find there Last time I checked the SQLite API in question, it looked as though try/catch was my only option. -- Cheers -- Tim
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