Re: Should masked exceptions be an error?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:30 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:

Consider:
try {
    ...
} catch (Exception) {
    ...
} catch (StdioException) {
    ...
}

The second handler never matches because StdioException is a subclass of  
Exception, so the first handler will always match whatever the second  
matches.

Should that be a compile-time error? I think so.


Andrei

Think so, too.