Walter Bright Wrote: > I think you misunderstand why checked exceptions are such a bad idea. It's > not > just that they are inconvenient and annoying. They decrease security by > *hiding* > bugs. That is the opposite of what you'd want in a high security language.
Not only is swallowing the exception a problem, but exceptions aren't added liberally in the code since every exception thrown/renamed effects all calling code. I'm still not in the habit of asserting assumptions.
