Yes, I Believe, there are a lot of ways, where one can use conditions to control the flow. And throwing exceptions to control the flow in a program is really a bad idea.

Surely.

In the situation where it’s a run time exception, you catch the exception and then throw it again:
[code]
private String getSomething() throws SomeException
{
String s;
try {
s = doSomething();
}
catch(SomeException se) {
s = doSomethingElse();
throw se;
}
}[/code]

So that your special error handling behaviour goes through. Maybe there should be a fillInStackTrace() in there, I forget.

There are better ways to control the flow of execution without using exceptions. A simple “if/else” could be used to make such choices. Exceptions are for exceptions, and the catch block is for recovering from exceptions, but not to make algorithmic choices. When such choices are make via exceptions, code could become fragile.

If doSomething fails, you need to record that it happened.

In your mind, are you supposed to catch exceptions, then ignore them? That is much much worse.