Re: Throwable

2009-08-19 Thread John Rose
On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: > Fortunately, the JVM doesn't know about checked exceptions. Let's hope > this will remain so even in the future. The Java language checks exceptions statically. The JVM doesn't. Neither of these facts will change in the foreseeable fut

Re: Throwable

2009-08-19 Thread Raffaello Giulietti
Patrick Wright wrote: > The issue of InvokeDynamic calls from Java as regards checked > exceptions was discussed on the Project Coin mailing list: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-May/thread.html#1650 > > see the mails related to "JSR 292" and others with "292" in the title.

Re: Throwable

2009-08-19 Thread Patrick Wright
The issue of InvokeDynamic calls from Java as regards checked exceptions was discussed on the Project Coin mailing list: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-May/thread.html#1650 see the mails related to "JSR 292" and others with "292" in the title. See for example this partial thr

Re: Throwable

2009-08-19 Thread Raffaello Giulietti
Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Raffaello > Giulietti wrote: >> The language compiler complains about an >> unreported exception Throwable; must be caught or declared to be thrown >> in using both InvokeDynamic and the (invisible) MethodHandle.invoke() >> >> Why is t

Re: Throwable

2009-08-18 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote: > The language compiler complains about an > unreported exception Throwable; must be caught or declared to be thrown > in using both InvokeDynamic and the (invisible) MethodHandle.invoke() > > Why is this so? > What about an (unchecked) Ru