Re: Should masked exceptions be an error?

[Ary Borenszweig]

Michal Minich wrote:

Andrei Alexandrescu 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

Yes, it works like that in Java.

Yes, it works like that in C#.

Yes, it works like that in D.