I can confirm this is practice, in fact, the modification to Check.java I described a few posts ago would also allow compilation of code with catch clauses of checked exceptions not really being thrown.
/Casper On 19 Aug., 13:14, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > So there IS a bug for that. > > I've added a link tohttp://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6534270to > the documentation for lombok's @SupressWarnings, which does the exact > same thing. > > Christian: If you go in with a class file editor and remove the throws > clauses, the code will continue to run just fine. The validator will > NOT choke on it. I'm sure of that bit, and I'm almost sure that you > may catch a checked exception that no statement in the try block could > possibly throw, as well. javac won't compile such code, but again > that's just javac, and not a JVM thing. > > On Aug 19, 3:06 am, Alex Buckley <alex.buck...@sun.com> wrote: > > > I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I'm a fan > > ofhttp://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6534270 > > > On Aug 15, 5:56 am, Jeff Grigg <jeffgr...@charter.net> wrote: > > > > I like the beauty and simplicity of completely empty catch blocks. >;-> > > > OK, some developers, to comply with corporate documentation > > > > standards, put comments there. >;-> > > > > (Reality is that I'll usually wrap checked exceptions in > > > RuntimeExceptions at a low level, and then catch Exception at the top > > > level -- to log it and abort or retry the transaction or user action. > > > There's a lot of really bad code out there that misuses exceptions and > > > does exception handling cleanup wrong. It's a problem!!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
