On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 11:40:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 10:30:36 UTC, wjoe wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 10:01:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Could you please elaborate why checked exceptions are more
annoying?
For me, it's because they require all functions that touch them
to either try/catch or include an exception specification in
its declaration. In my Java days, I ended up just doing what so
many others do and adding `throws Exception` or
`catch(Exception)` to avoid having to handle multiple exception
types. Most of the time, I didn't care what specific sort of
exception was thrown.
Because of the problems with checked exceptions they were
deliberately left out in C#. Here is an interview with Anders
Hejlsberg, the creator of C# at MS, where he explains the reasons
for this decision: https://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html