"Greg Lorriman" <✉bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>
> It's supposed to cover the unexpected which means
> that for which your program cannot be reasonably expected to cope. A user
> providing a path to a non-existent file, for example, or an alphanummeric
> string where a number is required.
>

Basically what you are saying is that the "threshold" for generating
exceptions is the allotted development budget. Complete error handling
takes more time to write. Any program can in principle handle the
cases you describe in a number of graceful ways without generating
exceptions.


Kristofer