On 15/10/2012 11:28, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote:
On 10/15/2012 12:34 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> Remi,
>
> This ship has sailed you can't recall it. CloneNotSupportedException
> is a checked exception and needs to remain so for source and binary
> compatibility.
>
I see how this is source incompatible and also behaviorally
incompatible in a few cases, but how is this binary incompatible?
I think you're right as there wouldn't be a linkage error.
This thread reminds of Joe Darcy's classic blog on compatibility kinds:
https://blogs.oracle.com/darcy/entry/kinds_of_compatibility
