Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
>>When a
>>designer establishes a sensible policy regarding exceptions, checked
>>exceptions make it possible to be reasonably confident that (nearly) all
>>error conditions are handled in a sane manner.
> 
> It can work in an opposite way.
> I've seen developpers (professional) that couldn't break the specification
> by adding an throws statement so they were simply catching .... and ignoring
> the exceptions !

Note what I said above about the designer establishing 'a sensible 
policy'.  In my team, catching and ignoring exceptions is punishable by 
the death penalty. :)  If an interface doesn't allow you to handle an 
exception properly, it needs to be changed.

Ben

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