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You did not phrase your advice this way - in fact you phrased it to promote one technique all for not writing extra code. We have hijacked this thread enough, if you have questions or something else...

Bad practice 'examples' are just that - bad practice. I know you are trying to help, but planting the seed of bad practice ends up wasting the time of one if not more people.

This is not advice I would recommend as it is both poor exception handling as well as bad practice (unless you know what you are doing and have your reasons - and eliminating extra code isn't one of...

There are dozens of ways to implement your requirements. I suggest posting what you have thus far, or preferably an abbreviation of it in the form of an SSCCE to give some context. Lastly, I...