RE: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-21 Thread RK
004 4:26 AM To: Jakarta General List Subject: Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items I'm in favour of the multiple exception catch. I think the common use for this is to catch a series of checked exceptions in a certain way, while avoiding catching unchecked exceptions which y

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-20 Thread Brett Porter
I'm in favour of the multiple exception catch. I think the common use for this is to catch a series of checked exceptions in a certain way, while avoiding catching unchecked exceptions which you want to propogate. This is a good thing, because often I've seen code that catches Exception for brevit

RE: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> > > try { > > > > > > } catch( (JMSException | RemoteException | SQLException) e) { > > > } > > try { > > ... > > } catch (Exception e) { > > ... > > } > Usually you don't want to just catch all exceptions in a single block. > Instead you want to have clusters of exceptions And w

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-20 Thread Martin Cooper
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:31:11 -0800, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:21:02 -0800, Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:35 -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: > > ... > > > How about just being able to do multiple Exceptions in one blo

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-20 Thread Felipe Leme
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 05:31, Craig McClanahan wrote: > How about two lines, which you can already do today? > > try { > ... > } catch (Exception e) { > ... > } The problem with such approach is that it catches all exception, checked or not (see below) > seems to be a standarized "log it and

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-20 Thread Rainer Klute
Am Sa, 2004-11-20 um 08.31 schrieb Craig McClanahan: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:21:02 -0800, Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:35 -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: > > ... > > > How about just being able to do multiple Exceptions in one block? > > > > > > try { > > >

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-19 Thread Craig McClanahan
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:21:02 -0800, Daniel Rall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:35 -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: > ... > > How about just being able to do multiple Exceptions in one block? > > > > try { > > > > } catch(JMSException, RemoteException, SQLException e) { >

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-11-19 Thread Daniel Rall
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:35 -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: ... > How about just being able to do multiple Exceptions in one block? > > try { > > } catch(JMSException, RemoteException, SQLException e) { > } > > or possibly even: > > try { > > } catch( (JMSException | RemoteExcept

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-30 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:35, Henri Yandell wrote: > 2/ > How about just being able to do multiple Exceptions in one block? > > try { > > } catch(JMSException, RemoteException, SQLException e) { > } > > or possibly even: > > try { > > } catch( (JMSException | RemoteException

RE: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-29 Thread Gary Gregory
> try { > > } catch(JMSException, RemoteException, SQLException e) { > } +1 (We used to have something like that in Smalltalk) Gary - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL P

FW: RE: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-29 Thread Dan Lydick
gt; To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 10/29/04 12:38:48 PM > Subject: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items > > > > > 2/ > How about just being able to do multiple Exceptions in one block? > > try { > &

Re: Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-29 Thread sebb
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:35:04 -0400 (EDT), Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Dain Sundstrom wrote: > > > I actually love closures, and think it would be a great addition to Java. I > > spend a lot of time tracking down poorly written try/finally blocks in > > pe

Exception handling Was: Future JDK features 2 items

2004-10-29 Thread Henri Yandell
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Dain Sundstrom wrote: I actually love closures, and think it would be a great addition to Java. I spend a lot of time tracking down poorly written try/finally blocks in people's code where they don't properly close DB connections, IO streams, Jar files, and even delete the