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 -- 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.
