Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1375#issuecomment-157718710
I think there was a discussion about that before, and the decision was to
not change the behavior. The reason was that failing loudly with a good error
message is easier to figure out than silently ignoring a call to execute().
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