Feedback and comments on ARM proposal (original) (raw)

Howard Lovatt howard.lovatt at iee.org
Tue Mar 17 22:00:57 PDT 2009

Hi All,

2009/3/15 Reinier Zwitserloot <reinier at zwitserloot.com>:

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Also, why not make the dispose method exception free, realistically what can a user of an API do if dispose throws an exception?

Realistically, what can a user of an API do if 'write' throws an exception? Your argument does not hold water unless this is an argument for eschewing checked exceptions altogether.

There are cases were the user can do something with a checked exception, e.g. opening a file. In this case the user can be prompted for a different file name if the one suggested does not exist. So I think there are some cases for which checked exceptions are suitable, I have certainly used them from time to time (I don't use many though).

I think one of the problems with checked exceptions is that they are over used, e.g. close file, that is why I am suggesting that the resource auto-clean-up should not throw an exception.

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