Re: Disambiguating empty catch blocks

[Bruce Chapman]

Dimitris Andreou wrote:

Usual idioms:

1) catch (Exception ignored) { }

2) catch (Exception e) { throw new AssertionError(e); }

That constructor doesn't exist (yet)

Also, your impossible() method's signature is not quite right. It should be returning some unchecked exception, so the calling code could write "throw e.impossible();" - even if this statement would never be called, and the exception is thrown from the impossible() method, still this is needed in order not to confuse the compiler (otherwise it would think the subsequent code could be reachable).

Good point.

Thanks

Regards,
Dimitris