It's a contrived example, certainly. Your counterexample is informative. I hadn't thought of exceptions in this way. The downside of putting everything in a `t

It's a contrived example, certainly. Your counterexample is informative. I hadn't thought of exceptions in this way. The downside of putting everything in a `try` block, of course, is that we'll potentially catch exceptions arising from a bug in our code which should crash our program.