In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Aahz wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Aahz wrote: >>>> >>>>That's funny -- Bruce Eckel talks about how he used to love checked >>>>exceptions but has come to regard them as the horror that they are. >>>>I've learned to just write "throws Exception" at the declaration of >>>>every method. >>> >>>Pretty sloppy, though, no? And surely the important thing is to have a >>>broad handler, not a broad specification of raisable exceptions? >> >> Yes, it's sloppy, but I Don't Care. I'm trying to write usable code >> while learning a damnably under-documented Java library -- and I'm *not* >> a Java programmer in the first place, so I'm also fighting with the Java >> environment. Eventually I'll add in some better code. > >The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
So's the road to unfinished software projects. The question, as always, becomes how best to balance the competing requirements and resources. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list