IMO if you find yourself returning a multi-valued ...

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[greybird]

IMO if you find yourself returning a multi-valued result, to indicate errors or other exceptional conditions, and returning that value up the stack so that higher level functions can handle the exceptional conditions, then using try/catch may be a better solution. Exceptions are useful and can result in cleaner code, in spite of sometimes being misused.

[Max Russek]

Emphasis here on exceptional conditions. Please don’t use exceptions for things that you expect to happen in your application. At least that’s my opinion