On 6/12/2013 2:21 PM, bearophile wrote:
Jonathan M Davis:
What I find most interesting about checked exceptions is the fact that almost
everyone thinks that they're a fantastic idea when they first encounter them
and yet they're actually a bad idea. It's actually a good example of how a
feature sometimes needs to be thoroughly field-tested before it becomes clear
how good or bad it is.
Maybe checked exceptions are bad only for the type system of Java. Maybe for a
language that has global type inferencing on the exceptions such feature becomes
better.
C++98 had checked exceptions (exception specifications), too. Another failure of
the idea, it failed so badly hardly anyone but language lawyers ever knew it had it.
