Exception Control Flow
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Enforcement Core
Record: architecture:exception-control-flow
Severity: discouraged
Scope: correctness_verification
Formed by: Use exceptions for expected branching, normal absence, validation alternatives, or loop control.
Canonical: Ontology
A defect in which exceptions carry expected branching or normal absence.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Inconsistent Error Model and before Null Semantics Drift.