Could you elaborate on that, it goes against all documented interviews
I've come by over the years? Also, how could there be a backwards
compatibility issue on a new runtime and language?

On Mar 24, 7:00 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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