"Greg Lorriman" <✉bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:3b781c99_2@dnews...
> Absolutely not! I am saying that it is unreasonable for MS Word to do > anything other than abort if the user provides a false path in the open > dialog. What is the programmer supposed to do? Is he supposed to attempt to > find a file whose soundex is similar? That would be unreasonable. There is > no reasonable contigency and it's obvious that user intervention is needed. > This situation is asking for an exception.
? it is? if your program just detects that no such file (as specified) is present or valid, all it needs to do is display an error message and offer the user a chance to specify another filename (or quit). I would tend to see this as part of the anticipated behaviour of a function (and the user input), not as an exceptional case (SNAFU, idiot users, etc.).
Kristofer