> If you're wrapping a try block around every piece of code that might throw an exception, then you're doing it wrong.

Well then the C++ standard people are doing it wrong, because something as expected-to-fail as converting a string to a number throws an exception.

What am I supposed to do if I want to load a text file containing numbers and print out where it failed? Yep, I have to wrap every string-to-number conversion in a try-catch block.

Or in reality I make a wrapper function that does it. This is why exceptions are stupid - 80% of the time you want the context provided by the program counter in order to handle the error.

int string_to_int(const std::string& s, int def) { try { size_t pos = 0; int v = std::stoi(s, &pos); // Check that the number was parsed from the entire string (stoi ignores trailing garbage). if (pos == s.size()) return v; } catch (std::logic_error&) { // This occurs if there is no conversion (e.g. no digits) or the number doesn't fit in an int. } return def; }