[jollybean]

"> Some errors are unexpected and should stop the program; you want to use exceptions for those.

Precisely the opposite: exceptions are a fail-fast mechanism that gives you an alternative to terminating the program."

I don't see how this logic flows.

Exceptions do give you the alternative to recover, sure, but the author is saying 'the kinds of errors that produce states where you should stop the program ... use exceptions'.

You're not really disagreeing it seems.

Where you might disagree, is that the author is indicating the 'recovery cases' are more suited to being straight error returns while you're hinting at exception recovery.

[zvrba]

> You're not really disagreeing it seems.

The author wrote "stop the program". I took it to mean literally: stop the program, i.e., exit immediately, i.e., crash. That's not acceptable in long-running "service" programs.