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On 16/06/2014 04:38, Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 22:17:57 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>> I don't believe HandGrenade implements throw().  It does, however,
>> implement lobbeth().
>
> And therein lies the problem with Object Oriented Programming:
> instances of HandGrenade neither throw nor lobbeth.
>
> One, Two, Five'ly yours,
> Dan
>

The above looks like a bug that should have been picked up, why hasn't 
OverflowError been raised?

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