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Re: Abuse of AssertionError?

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Eric Sosman schrieb:
>      My solution has been to write
>
>      throw new AssertionError("BUG!");

1) It depends on the context that runs the code.
For example sometimes I throw:

     throw new RuntimeException()

In such situation, and in my particular case
I know that the context will not catch it,
resulting probably in an application abort.

2) On the other hand sometimes I throw:

     throw new IllegalArgumentException();

But I don't need to declare this exception
either in the method signature. But it
could be that the context catches this.

3) Or sometimes I use an exception that is
clearly visible in the method signature,
and forces the context to act.

I guess you want scenario 1) ?

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Abuse of AssertionError? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-04-21 08:44 -0400
  Re: Abuse of AssertionError? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-21 10:21 -0400
    Re: Abuse of AssertionError? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-04-21 11:21 -0400
      Re: Abuse of AssertionError? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-04-21 11:31 -0400
  Re: Abuse of AssertionError? j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2015-04-21 16:59 +0200
    Re: Abuse of AssertionError? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-04-21 11:26 -0400
  Re: Abuse of AssertionError? Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2015-04-21 17:05 +0200

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