Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Line wrapping Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:28:24 -0800 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net LRg5G5IDOntb16BsFy6YRtfJbnzFXrWMmQYPqQABNWb0umCyFvlp1sw7GWx6rnfDE+SjBBXHOvOsZCJBchzbdIZOUuPF6vMwFd0qLkDrnBgDQfqEZT/QiVJ0nQcaOcyi NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="4xER2HFmZYNX6Fl+8i8XYAy/97vERyBYKbsHaMe0KlHv9wR4u0ybJfTR4PPE+6Sg87UbO20S5gNPM4vY7kb/XfdEuaMUsGIctBCXNR3KBFSaoMuskWPlCHedYvMEoIgM"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q2MFP5ToV3rwXTeeunM0z/B56r8= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11569 Jeff Higgins wrote: > Lew wrote: >> 'Exception's and 'Error's are different beasts. It's very sloppy to call >> them "Exception/Error". Which? > Cute, but a red herring. This is not an 'Error', nor claimed to be in the Javadocs. I concur that the name could have been better chosen. So could its constructors. Notice that they don't even allow an 'Error' as a constructor argument. This must have been a deliberate choice, given that they could have easily carried forward the policy of the supertype constructor: So it's crystal clear that the compound name part "Error" and the document comments about "error" refer to the word in the natural language sense only, and no confusion between 'java.lang.Error' and 'java.lang.Exception' should be inferred. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg