- February 3, 2003
Bill de h&211;ra replies to my exception comments. His article has a lot of interesting details to think about, more so because of the external links:
A very interesting article by Bruce Eckel on Java and Checked Exceptions and notes by Robert Di Falco in this thread.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100683/2003/02/03.html#a301
- February 2, 2003
Bill de h&211;ra has started a very interesting thread in Exceptions considered pointless. Bill says:
Three rules of thumb are forming in my mind around exceptions:
don't swallow exceptions (with two exceptions)
avoid using exceptions
avoid inventing exceptions
The first many Java developers will understand. Rarely, you know an exception is not going to be thrown, but you have to catch it anyway, and sometimes you have to catch InterruptedException as part of normal program flow.
The last...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100683/2003/02/02.html#a300
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