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Re:Try Three Times by scardine on Friday March 06, 2015 @09:44AM (#9157165)
> Exception performance is terrible in almost every language.

Duck-typing using exceptions is very idiomatic in Python. Also, raising an exception instead of returning error values is a popular API design. Hell, the iterator API - the foundation of loops in Python - raises an exception (StopIteration).

I guess this prescription about exceptions was made with some specific language in mind and it is dangerous to generalize.

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Re:Try Three Times by copsarebastards on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:52PM (#9173010)
Yes, I do about 25% of my daily dev in Python and have done so for years, and I'm well aware that this is idiomatic in Python. Python was the specific language I was thinking of when I said "almost".

> I guess this prescription about exceptions was made with some specific language in mind and it is dangerous to generalize.

I guess this post about generalizing was made ignoring the word "almost" and it is dangerous to ignore qualifiers.

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Re:Try Three Times by scardine on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:45AM (#9177391)
I still think "almost any language" is a stretch, but I'm not in the mood of profiling several languages in order to assert this claim - without numbers my experience is as anecdotal as yours.
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