On 6/12/13 6:21 PM, bearophile wrote:
Jonathan M Davis:
What I find most interesting about checked exceptions is the fact that
almost
everyone thinks that they're a fantastic idea when they first
encounter them
and yet they're actually a bad idea. It's actually a good example of
how a
feature sometimes needs to be thoroughly field-tested before it
becomes clear how good or bad it is.
Maybe checked exceptions are bad only for the type system of Java. Maybe
for a language that has global type inferencing on the exceptions such
feature becomes better.
Why?
