On 12/22/2011 9:36 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
The authors of Java apparently thought the same. It is _experience_ with the actual feature that turned out to be bad. Last time I used Eclipse it underlined with red the lines with .*.
Checked exceptions is another feature that looks great on paper; it's only after years of use one discovers what a perniciously bad feature it is.
C++11 dropped it, too.
