The Industry choice

[Steve Holden]

Aahz wrote:

> In article <7xacrs230c.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
> Paul Rubin  <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>I was pretty skeptical of Java's checked exceptions when I first used
>>them but have been coming around about them.  There's just been too
>>many times when I wrote something in Python that crashed because some
>>lower-level function raised an exception that the upper level hadn't
>>been expecting, after the program had been in use for a while.  I'd
>>sure rather find out about that at compile time.
> 
> 
> That's funny -- Bruce Eckel talks about how he used to love checked
> exceptions but has come to regard them as the horror that they are.
> I've learned to just write "throws Exception" at the declaration of
> every method.

Pretty sloppy, though, no? And surely the important thing is to have a 
broad handler, not a broad specification of raisable exceptions?

regards
  Steve
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