DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 2: Code Analysis for D with AnalyzeD by Stefan Rohe

[Walter Bright]

On 6/12/2013 2:21 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
>
>> What I find most interesting about checked exceptions is the fact that almost
>> everyone thinks that they're a fantastic idea when they first encounter them
>> and yet they're actually a bad idea. It's actually a good example of how a
>> feature sometimes needs to be thoroughly field-tested before it becomes clear
>> how good or bad it is.
>
> Maybe checked exceptions are bad only for the type system of Java. Maybe for a
> language that has global type inferencing on the exceptions such feature becomes
> better.

It's not just Java specific. Bruce Eckel wrote a wonderful piece on why 
exception specifications *cause* bad code to be written.


http://www.mindview.net/Etc/Discussions/CheckedExceptions