[frumplestlatz]

Explicit error handling strategies allow you to not worry about all the code paths that explicitly cannot throw -- which is a lot of them. It makes life a lot easier in the non-throwing case, and doesn't complicate life any more in the throwing case as compared to exception-based error handling.

It also makes errors part of the API contract, which is where they belong, because they are.

[branko_d]

I would respectfully disagree with most of what you said. I guess individual perspective depends a lot on the kinds of code you work on.

The point about being explicitly part of the API stands, though.