Reading Until EOF

[Rainer Deyke]

Scott Brady Drummonds wrote:
> However, I'm not entirely comfortable having the Object constructor
> raise an exception when the end-of-file is hit.  Per my experience
> with C++, this does not qualify as "exceptional behavior".  Frankly,
> it is accepted.  I'd like to save the exceptions for true exceptions.

That's a common, but to my mind very strange preference.  If you handle an
exception, the exception is by definition expected and "normal".  Exceptions
are just a way to exit from nested loops and function calls; there is
nothing "exceptional" about them.


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