On 1/30/2011 5:27 AM, Steven Bethard wrote: > > I think we have a basic disagreement about what is buggy user code and > what isn't. I believe that declaring a method as "throws" is not buggy > code, and I believe that using RuntimeExceptions instead of checked > exceptions is not buggy code as long as they're declared to be thrown > (e.g. like SecurityException on File.getAbsolutePath). But I don't > think we're going to come to an agreement on this issue, so let's set > it aside. > > The main reason to add the feature is to allow your users to take the > countless number of existing libraries that can do useful things with > Iterators and apply them to your ObjectStreams. > > Steve http://www.ecreate.co.uk/pages/inputStreamIterator.php
Steve, here is a good example of why not. James
