It's hard to express exactly what we want to say here. I still don't think
that we've got it quite right. I think the original wording was actually
closer to describing current practice, though "supressing exceptions" is
too strong. The idea is that we want to define contracts so that methods
do
> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Steitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:11 PM
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/lang DEVELOPERS-GUIDE.html
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> It's hard to express exactly what