On 25 Jan 2011 06:04, "Shantanu Kumar" <kumar.shant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The changed code should catch 'Exception', not 'Throwable' because the > latter is a common ancestor of both 'Exception' and 'Error'. An > 'Error' must not be swallowed at any point in the system, unless you > are writing an app server or a JVM implementation. ;-)
Throwable is better I think. The idea is to be a more robust try/finally construct, and finally still runs if an Error is thrown. There is no problem temporarily catching Throwable as long as you don't swallow it. -- 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
