On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Having done a bit of C# development where exceptions are not checked
> > there were some times when I missed them.
>
> The full story is that the designers of C# were not convinced that
> they were worth the trouble.


Actually, no. The full story is that .net could not support checked
exceptions for backward compatibility reasons. Anything else you hear is
post rationalization.

By the way, this is the very same reason why C++ couldn't have checked
exceptions either.

-- 
Cédric

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