Greetings everyone! I am currently beginning to learn clojure, and here's one thing that I don't quite understand, that many exceptions thrown by clojure are the most generic java.lang.Exception's (e.g. when a symbol cannot be resolved). Why aren't more specific exception classes used, like clojure.lang.SymbolResolutionException? (Having a more specific exception class seems useful when doing exception handling.)
As far as I know, clojure throws exceptions defined in the standard Java library only, like the IllegalStateException when updating refs outside a transaction. So there are no appropriate exception classes for some errors occurred in clojure, which may be the reason it falls back to java.lang.Exception. Is the standard-exception-only thing intentional? If so, would you please tell me the rationale behind such a decision? I have only played with clojure for one day, so there's a huge possibility that I missed or misunderstood something. Please enlighten me. Thanks in advance. :) Regards, Ruochen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
