2011/3/24 Kevin Wright <[email protected]> > (B) Where you can get away with returning maybes/options, you're making it >> much harder for code to decide to defer the handling of this error condition >> to something up the chain. It's also infectious - if as part of doing your >> thing you could run into errors, then you have to turn whatever you return >> into an Option/Maybe guard as well. At some point virtually every method >> returns option/maybe. >> > > Which is exactly what you want, sometimes, and is *exactly* what checked > exceptions do. >
Of course not, exceptions also allow someone else than your direct caller to handle the error without you having to bubble up this condition manually. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
