Daniel Leping, I am unfamiliar with java. Do you have any resources that describe the nightmare in detail? On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 2:50 AM Tino Heth <2...@gmx.de> wrote:
> -1 for specifying errors for throws. Please don't. Proven by practice in > java it's a nightmare. > > In Java, this topic is really interesting: > It sounds like a great idea, but in real-life situations, afaics everyone > hates checked exceptions. > > But Swift isn't Java, and our error handling is different from most > established languages, so imho we shouldn't base that decision on > experiences from other models only: > I don't see downsides, because you already need "try" for everything that > can throw, and afaics, it would be easy to ignore the information that only > a set of exceptions can happen in a given context. > > So, imho before there is a decision wether "throws" should be moved, the > possibility to annotate it with a fixed set of error types should be either > abandoned or incorporated. >
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