Just a little note: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 02:32:49PM +1000, Stephen Crawley wrote: > I cannot see for the life of me where you are got this "different > semantics" idea from. The documentation for the exception defines its > semantics as:
The semantic difference comes from the inheritance hierarchy. java.lang.Exception is documented as: The class Exception and its subclasses are a form of Throwable that indicates conditions that a reasonable application might want to catch. A reasonable application should not expect a "standard" method not to be yet implemented, IMHO. Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath