On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:03 AM, 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. ;-)
Remember, we're no longer using a "finally" clause, so for the .close to be exception-safe *everything* must be caught. But it's rethrown unless both threw exceptions, and then we were only ever going to be able to keep one exception anyway. -- 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
