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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Today's inflamatory opinion: exceptions are bad
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:04:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061210180426.GA5347@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875c7e070612091935q2388092dr51538ff444d0e3a6@mail.gmail.com>

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.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-10 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-10  1:42 Brian Hurt
2006-12-10  2:40 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-12-10  2:51 ` Martin Jambon
2006-12-10  3:35 ` Chris King
2006-12-10  6:32   ` Jon Harrop
2006-12-10 19:07     ` brogoff
2006-12-10 18:04   ` Richard Jones [this message]
2006-12-10 23:27     ` Chris King
2006-12-11 15:55       ` Richard Jones
2006-12-15 11:13         ` Frédéric Gava
2006-12-11 17:28     ` Mike Lin
2006-12-11 20:09       ` Richard Jones
2006-12-11 23:38   ` Olivier Andrieu
     [not found]   ` <C841DA73-83D4-4CDD-BF4A-EA803C6D6A08@vub.ac.be>
2006-12-23  4:23     ` Ocaml checked exceptions Chris King
2006-12-10  6:30 ` [Caml-list] Today's inflamatory opinion: exceptions are bad malc
2006-12-10  6:36   ` malc
2006-12-10  6:56 ` Jon Harrop
2006-12-10  9:51 ` Andreas Rossberg
2006-12-10 11:00   ` Tom
2006-12-10 11:25     ` Andreas Rossberg
2006-12-10 13:27   ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2006-12-10 19:15     ` Haoyang Wang
2006-12-10 21:43       ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2006-12-11 13:10       ` Diego Olivier FERNANDEZ PONS
2006-12-10 18:31   ` Serge Aleynikov

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