... which is why you should use an appropriate refactor script that finds such situations.
On Sep 25, 8:38 am, Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clark...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's not an obscure situation, it's a real one that will crop up easily for > anybody who uses checked exceptions a lot and refactors their code. > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <reini...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Yes. If you spend enough time looking, you can always find some > > obscure situation that gets made worse. Few language proposals are > > made 100% of win with absolutely no lose anywhere. This proposal is no > > different. As I already mentioned, though, that's only true for rather > > limited forms of refactoring: An IDE's refactor wizard can easily find > > places where you now have seemingly useless catches, and tell you > > about them. > > > On Sep 24, 1:46 pm, Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Your proposal makes existing code that failed to compile start to > > compile, > > > making it harder to refactor code that has throws clauses without leaving > > > garbage in the codebase. > > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot < > > reini...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Oh, and my proposal does not make existing code fail to compile. See > > > > Lombok's @SneakyThrows. It just gives a third method of handling an > > > > exception: You can currently throw it onward (but you change the > > > > signature when you do so), or you can catch it. Lombok / this proposal > > > > adds a third option: Throw it onwards WITHOUT changing your signature. > > > > > The change to allow catching checked exceptions that the try body does > > > > not appear to throw is obviously backwards compatible as well. > > > > > On Sep 24, 3:43 am, Josh Berry <tae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot < > > reini...@gmail.com > > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > How's that different? The only thing you just told me is that you > > want > > > > > > to turn "forgot to do something with checked exception" from error > > to > > > > > > warning, which is close to a no-op in my book - I can delve into > > the > > > > > > eclipse compile settings and change a plethora of problems around > > from > > > > > > error to warning to ignore. > > > > > > My point is that it is no different. Just drop "checked" exceptions > > and > > > > you > > > > > can move all of that into warning territory. No need for new syntax > > on > > > > top > > > > > of it. Further, it doesn't screw up compatibility with existing > > code. > > > > It > > > > > may cause someone to start getting a warning when you change your > > mind > > > > about > > > > > "sneakily throwing" something, but it will still compile. (Which is > > > > > decidedly not the case in your method, no?) > > > > > > in other words. As soon as you "allow code to catch non-checked > > > > exceptions" > > > > > you have essentially already done away with checked exceptions. > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > "The Java Posse" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > > > .com> > > <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups .com> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > .com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
