On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 17:38:14 UTC, mckoder wrote:
Exceptions that can be thrown by a method should be part of the contract of that method. Changing the list of the list of exceptions that can be thrown by a method is just like changing the parameters of the method. This is something that should cause calling code to fail to compile. This will allow you to inspect the calling code and decode how to deal with the new exception.
I think the reason it didn't work out for C++ to specify the exceptions is that you need good IDE support for it and C++ was to a large extent a language where people wrote code in basic editors.
message. I have a lot of respect for Anders Hejlsberg (my first programming language was Turbo Pascal) but he is completely wrong on this topic.
Turbo Pascal as a language was so-so, but the IDE was very productive.
