Maybe is good if something may or may not be there such in a dictionary
lookup. The element not being available is a normal occurrence in that case.
In the case of errors it would hide what the actual error was.
Peter
Michael Neale wrote:
> Or Maybe - (in which case you don't care about the None case, you just
> need to handle it).
>
> On Aug 18, 6:43 pm, Peter Becker <peter.becker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In Scala you get the Either type. That is superior for most cases where
>> one might use checked exceptions in Java.
>>
>> I have used that style in Java, but you usually don't make friends with it.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Neale wrote:
>>
>>> What do people think of the scala approach of no checked exceptions -
>>> even checked exceptions are not treated specially by the constructor
>>> (personally, I like it).
>>>
>>> On Aug 18, 12:55 pm, Christian Catchpole <christ...@catchpole.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, i just let that go up. I really try to avoid the declare as null
>>>> then set thingy.
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 18, 12:03 pm, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You neglect to handle the checked exception declared by
>>>>> prepareStatement no?
>>>>>
>>>>> PreparedStatement stmt = null;
>>>>> try{
>>>>> stmt = connection.prepareStatement(sql);
>>>>> final ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery();
>>>>> try{
>>>>> while (rs.next()){
>>>>> // Stuff...
>>>>> {
>>>>> }
>>>>> finally{
>>>>> rs.close();
>>>>> }}
>>>>>
>>>>> catch(SQLException e){
>>>>> // Logging...}
>>>>>
>>>>> finally{
>>>>> try{
>>>>> stmt.close();
>>>>> }
>>>>> catch(SQLException whoTheFuckCares){
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Really, how many other ways are there to do it I wonder now? (Apart
>>>>> from wrapping certain things, like the last try-catch clause in some
>>>>> general purpose "closer util"?).
>>>>>
>>>>> /Casper
>>>>>
> >
>
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