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Re: Way to avoid repeating to catch the same exception in overridden method

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On 19.10.2015 18:11, Eric Sosman wrote:

>      My big question, though, is about the exception itself.  Why
> in the name of all that's holy does a no-argument method throw an
> exception that complains about an illegal argument?  Which one of
> its non-existent arguments is it complaining about?

And even if that exception was legitimate, since it's a 
RuntimeException, which typically indicates a programmer error, it is 
questionable to catch it here.  Of course that can only be decided with 
more context but it is at least worthwhile to ponder.

Kind regards

	robert

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Way to avoid repeating to catch the same exception in overridden method mike <mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-19 01:02 -0700
  Re: Way to avoid repeating to catch the same exception in overridden method Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-10-19 12:11 -0400
    Re: Way to avoid repeating to catch the same exception in overridden method Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2015-10-23 08:59 +0200
  Re: Way to avoid repeating to catch the same exception in overridden method Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-10-19 12:26 +0000
  Re: Way to avoid repeating to catch the same exception in overridden method Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2015-10-23 11:00 +0200
    Re: Way to avoid repeating to catch the same exception in overridden method Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-10-23 10:32 +0000

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