Thorough use of 'if' statements or 'try/catch' blocks?

Question

Give me some of your thoughts on which is a better coding practice/makes more efficient code/looks prettier/whatever: Increasing and improving your ability to use if statem

Answer 1

My 2p: Using try/catch is best:

• it makes it absolutely clear to other coders that you are doing exception handling
• the compiler understands what you are doing and can perform more appropriate compile-time checks for you

In my experience, using if-conditional-logic makes it more difficult to distinguish error handling from business logic.