RE: [Biojava-l] ChangeVetoExceptions

2001-07-16 Thread Cox, Greg
the effort, in both documentation/rewriting code and difficulty understanding the system. Greg -Original Message- From: Mark Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:05 PM To: Thomas Down Cc: biojava-l (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] ChangeVetoExceptions This see

Re: [Biojava-l] ChangeVetoExceptions

2001-07-16 Thread Mark Schreiber
Hi - I generally agree that checked exceptions are safer and for throw away programs I tend to catch exceptions and throw errors but I have recently read a number of articles (mostly in java world) that have called into question the "design flaw" of enforced exception handling. According to thes

Re: [Biojava-l] ChangeVetoExceptions

2001-07-16 Thread Thomas Down
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:52:38AM +1200, Schreiber, Mark wrote: > > Hi - > > I was wondering if it might be better if ChangeVetoException could be > subclassed from an unchecked exception. > > I know that unchecked exceptions are a contentious issue in java but in many > cases when writing a s

[Biojava-l] ChangeVetoExceptions

2001-07-15 Thread Schreiber, Mark
Hi - I was wondering if it might be better if ChangeVetoException could be subclassed from an unchecked exception. I know that unchecked exceptions are a contentious issue in java but in many cases when writing a simple program I want to add a feature to an internal feature holder or a sequence