Re: if/else vs. try/catch

They are completely different in funtionality.

if/else determines which blocks of code to execute according to
specific conditions, while a try/catch monitors to see if an error
occurred and to exit out of the current execution block.

On Apr 22, 9:51 am, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:06 AM, brandon buster <bbuster....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not sure if this is a dumb question or not, but it seems to me these
> > two techniques could be used interchangeably to test for and handle
> > errors.
>
> > Are there any benefits of using one over the other, or scenarios in
> > which one should be used over the other?
>
> They're not interchangeable. You can't catch an error in an else block.

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