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On Friday, 15 October 2021 at 19:03:20 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2021-10-15 19:48, J-P. Rosen wrote: 
> 
> > Some people reserve exceptions for signalling errors. I regard them as a 
> > way to handle "exceptional" situations, i.e. when the normal flow of 
> > control cannot continue. For example, in a deep recursive search, they 
> > are handy to stop the recursion and go back to top level when you have 
> > found what you were looking for. Some would disagree with that.
> I strongly believe that this is the only consistent way to treat exceptions. 

If I am not mistaken.The ada 95 style guide states that you should not end a loop with an exception, on purpose.