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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: How to handle same sanity checks
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:30:01 -0000 (UTC)
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Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
> On 6/22/2017 7:26 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> [...]
>> If you really want it thrown at the call-site, there are these slightly
>> more verbose variants:
>> Let checkN() *return* the exception (or null if all was ok), then:
>>     for (Exception e=checkN(...);e!=null;) { throw e; }
> Note that this will put checkN() at the top of the stack trace,
> not the method that called it.  Javadoc for Throwable (emphasis mine):
> 	"[...] A throwable contains a snapshot of the execution stack of
> 	its thread at the time it was *created*. [...]"

Thanks for the correction!

Seems to have been a long standing wrong belief on my side, and browsing
on Stackoverflow and similar sites, it's an often stated (and also often 
correctly refuted) thing.  C# seems to have it differently, but I can't
use that as an excuse for me, as I haven't done any C# programming.

Sorry to OP for my (in hindsight) useless answer.