PROPOSAL: Unchecked Exceptions as Subclasses of Checked Exceptions (original) (raw)
Reinier Zwitserloot reinier at zwitserloot.com
Wed Mar 25 16:51:43 PDT 2009
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Any library that, for whatever reason, needs to know if a given
Throwable object is checked or not, currently does this with:
(x instanceof Error || x instanceof RuntimeException).
There's no .isChecked() method.
This proposal would break that, so its not backwards compatible. I
think it's a neat idea, but that would auto-disqualify it from coin, I
think.
--Reinier Zwitserloot
On Mar 26, 2009, at 00:10, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
Alan Snyder wrote:
Unchecked Exceptions as Subclasses of Checked Exceptions public class TheCheckedException extends Exception {};
public class TheUncheckedException extends TheCheckedException implements UncheckedException {}; I like the idea. I'm not sure if its actually feasible. I suspect that its more complex than it seems. I'm also not sure whether there are that many real use cases. Most of the time you control your exception hierarchy (so you can choose unchecked) or you have to live with a published API (the JDK) and so it can't be changed. Stephen
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