What "thing extending OBJECT?!" are you talking about, Eddie?

Who, what, where, when?

At 07:12 PM 10/8/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Before I go looking stupid in front of folks I don't know, I prefer to 
>first look stupid in front of people I do :-)
>
>So - what's up with this thing extending OBJECT?!  The compiler doesn't 
>track that really well!  I just noticed because I coded some stuff I knew 
>should throw exceptions - expecting the compiler to tell me exactly what 
>it was I needed to catch (I know, I know - I was feeling lazy) ... and - 
>it *didn't*!  I don't think I like that :-/  I suppose this is a prime 
>example of why you familiarize yourself with the Javadocs before using a 
>class ... or keep the javadoc up while you code even ...
>
>Dare I post to commons-dev?  That seems like ... a "really big thing" - am 
>I wrong?  I'm hoping someone can set me straight.  I know some of you guys 
>follow the commons stuff ... very rigorously.  ... why OBJECT? Exception 
>wasn't good enough for them?  ... I just don't get it.
>
>Thanks for being my shining light!  (D'oh!  Hope that's not a train coming!)
>
>(It just *feels* so *wrong*!)
>
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>Eddie Bush
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