[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Nit

[Dustin Sallings]

On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 20:58 US/Pacific, Miles Bader wrote:

> Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> writes:
> > You're dismissing an entire methodology because you think
> > you've found a small hole that might cause an exception to be handled
> > in the wrong place.
>
> I think it's not a `small hole', it's a rather large one.

	I understand it, but I'll really need to see where it will cause an 
actual problem rather than a misleading error message or something 
before I consider it a large problem.

> >         You appear to be an exceptional developer in your areas of
> > expertise, but you don't seem to have the experience with writing
> > reliable java applications that some of the ``java-fans'' have.
>
> Java's exception model is hardly unique, it's exemplary of a very 
> common
> exception model.  So one doesn't need to be a java expert to say
> something useful about this issue; java is just an example.

	What languages do exceptions better?  I still have quite a few 
programming languages to learn, but even checked exceptions as well as 
done in java seem somewhat rare.

	I'm not trying to imply that I believe Java's are the best possible or 
anything like that.  I know it can be much better.  I want the compiler 
to do as much as it can to let me know where I am doing something 
wrong, but too few languages are helpful here.

	Portable clu doesn't yet compile on my system, so I haven't tried that 
yet.

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