Paul Benedict wrote:
Joe,
The class documentation currently has a nice chronological history of
Throwable's features:
* "Prior to release 1.4, there were many throwables that had their own
non-standard exception chaining mechanisms..."
* "Further, as of release 1.4, many general purpose...."
* "Also introduced in release 1.4 is the getStackTrace() method..."
It's odd, however, that the suppressed exceptions feature is held off
until the printStackTrace() method:
"As of release 7, the platform supports the notion of suppressed exceptions..."
For consistency, I recommend moving some of that documentation to the
class level to continue the big picture.
Paul
Hello Paul.
Yes, I had noticed that chronology too. However, the way I would make
the current definition of the class consistent is to largely delete the
history lesson ;-) Much of the text in question reads much better in
release 1.4 than in 1.5, 6, or now 7.
-Joe
