Sounds nice, and of course it is possible to build solutions with exceptions that do recover all errors elegantly and cleanly. However, the correct judge on thi

Sounds nice, and of course it is possible to build solutions with exceptions that do recover all errors elegantly and cleanly. However, the correct judge on this would be your own users. Given enough care, the discussion becomes rather philosophical. Though, having to confront errors through the callstack makes one review where handling would be most prudent, in real-life the time-pressures are just too strong making such efforts largely unrewarded.