In article <402125e4@news.povray.org>, dan### [at] yahoocom says...
> try
> {
>     Do something
> }
> catch (Exception ex)
> {
>     Failure
> }
> 
> Are you saying all these people are wrong?

Just my two cents here, but this isn't exactly the same things. 
However... If you opened the file, then tested to see if it worked and 
intentionally throw an exception, then it would be the same. What you are 
doing is manually handling an event that languages like Java can 
sometimes automatically generate an error event for. When this is the 
case, it is a real good idea to make sure things happen in the correct 
order. There are quite a few cases where checking after the fact can be 
flat out lethal to your program. In fact when dealing with Windows, the 
damn API is so flaky that it may actually appear to work and only crash 
your program, and the OS, *after* you try to shut down the program. 
Believe me, I have had it happen. lol

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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