Well, once again my elite readers have made a solution posting by me nearly redundant. There were many good viewpoints in response to my article including some especially excellent comments that were spot on. Now there are several things worth saying...

Here's an article under Jon's Homepage that was just brought to my attention. It's an interesting analysis of (approximately) the raw cost of throwing an exception. Jon is definately right on that 200 exceptions per hour isn't gonna hurt anything. ...

In my last quiz I asked a few questions about a few hypothetical classes that might appear in a value-rich context. I styled my example in the form of some graphics library classes but the idea is a general one. Many contexts can and should be rich in...

We had a good discussion on the NameValueCollection internally not too long ago and I asked my friends on the BCL Team to post a summary of the things that were discussed. Kim Hamilton delivered and how. Great tidbits like: For example, when doing...