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Re: Checked Exceptions in Java

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On Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 4:46:16 PM UTC-5, Lew wrote:
> Now *that's* a solid, rational, engineeering argument!
> 
> Not.
> 
> The language doesn't tell the programmer how to program with Java any more than with any other programming language, so that premise is false
> 
> Checked exceptions are a *programmer's* decision to use or not. If an API writer included checked exceptions, they had a reason to. You might bitch and whine and moan and gripe and cry about it, but they did it for a reason. Just like they did for the argument and return types, and the name of the method.
> 
> If you don't like it, don't use that API.
> 
> The fact is that checked exceptions are very useful to indicate out-of-band conditions for a method that a client should, and in the mind of the author, must handle. Checked exceptions are the API's way of letting you, the client programmer, know what those out-of-band conditions. And thank goodness, or there'd be random, unpredictable, seen-first-in-production crashes when those predictable exceptions happen!
> 
> People who say "try..catch" "just sucks" are ignoring decades of advances in programming-language design. People who decry checked exceptions in Java have utterly failed to understand either their rationale and whom to blame for them.
> 
> -- 
> Lew

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Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-06 20:37 +0000
  Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-02-06 13:45 -0800
    Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-08 01:31 +0000
      Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-02-07 21:47 -0800
        Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-15 11:39 +0000
          Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 05:03 -0800
        Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-15 11:42 +0000
      Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 05:34 -0800
        Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-15 11:41 +0000
        Re: Checked Exceptions in Java ruben <ceo@iran.gov> - 2016-02-15 11:44 +0000
    Re: Checked Exceptions in Java Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 05:33 -0800

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