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

[Ary Borenszweig]

On 6/12/13 6:21 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.

Why?