Of course sometimes exceptions are not the answer... I don't mean one should "throw them whenever they can" in literal sense, like the more the merrier :) Exce

Of course sometimes exceptions are not the answer... I don't mean one should "throw them whenever they can" in literal sense, like the more the merrier :) Exceptions, as the name itself indicates, should only be reactions to EXCEPTIONAL situations. Showstoppers. The adage is: don't use exceptions for flow control. In the case you described, it seems to me that they did just that, and I don't condone that. It's clearly a case of bad, or at least unfortunate API design... By "whenever you can" I meant "whenever you can once the ground criteria are met", I kind of thought it goes without saying but I should've been more precise