Aahz wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aahz wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was pretty skeptical of Java's checked exceptions when I first used them but have been coming around about them. There's just been too many times when I wrote something in Python that crashed because some lower-level function raised an exception that the upper level hadn't been expecting, after the program had been in use for a while. I'd sure rather find out about that at compile time.
That's funny -- Bruce Eckel talks about how he used to love checked exceptions but has come to regard them as the horror that they are. I've learned to just write "throws Exception" at the declaration of every method.
Pretty sloppy, though, no? And surely the important thing is to have a broad handler, not a broad specification of raisable exceptions?
Yes, it's sloppy, but I Don't Care. I'm trying to write usable code while learning a damnably under-documented Java library -- and I'm *not* a Java programmer in the first place, so I'm also fighting with the Java environment. Eventually I'll add in some better code.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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