I don't care for them, either, for the same reason: they are less explicit (to me) than direct error handling at the point-of-failure. I've found exceptions are

I don't care for them, either, for the same reason: they are less explicit (to me) than direct error handling at the point-of-failure. I've found exceptions are also actually more verbose in many cases, for the same level of granularity in error trapping. My view is that exceptions handled in try-catch blocks are okay when handling "bulk" initialization or other computations where it doesn't matter which particular step failed. In every other case, it's better, in my view, to use explicit code.