On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 00:40:10 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 00:38:21 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 1/11/2015 2:48 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
However, if exceptions are thrown for errors instead, the
programmer has to
deliberately add code if he wishes to ignore the error.
Interesting that this article just appeared:
https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values
by Rob Pike on error handling in Go. He concludes with:
"But remember: Whatever you do, always check your errors!"
Which sums up why exceptions are better!
But checked exceptions are definitely not.
http://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html
The best sum up of checked exception you'll find.