Agreed. Exceptions should be, well, exceptional. Not normal parts of control flow, or commonly occurring kinds of errors. Assertion failures, or other things th

Agreed. Exceptions should be, well, exceptional. Not normal parts of control flow, or commonly occurring kinds of errors. Assertion failures, or other things that would otherwise send a signal and terminate the process - seg fault, divide by zero, etc. Maybe something like a socket being closed unexpectedly. That's kind of the boundary where it's worth debating. Anything more common/expected than that should be represented as an error code and not completely redirect the program's control flow.