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Date: | 2006-12-10 (18:04) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Today's inflamatory opinion: exceptions are bad |
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 10:35:56PM -0500, Chris King wrote: > One thing Java (sort of) gets right is keeping track of which > exceptions a function can throw, making it easy to ensure that some > deeply nested piece of code won't cause the entire application to die > from some obscure exception. I'd love to see a similar feature in > O'Caml, whereby the exceptions which a function can raise are part of > its type and are inferred and checked by the compiler. Oh please no! Checked exceptions are the dumbest and most frustrating feature of Java (and that's saying something - the Java language has far more frustrations than most programming languages). Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Internet Marketing and AdWords courses - http://merjis.com/courses - NEW! Merjis blog - http://blog.merjis.com - NEW!