From: Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@qlogic.com>
To: Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Checked exceptions and type inference
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:50:13 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303111538120.2164-100000@eagle.ancor.com> (raw)
Reading LtU I came across this article:
http://www.octopull.demon.co.uk/java/ExceptionalJava.html
Java treats checked exceptions as part of the type signature of the
function. As such, it seems to me that as such, type inference would work
to propogate most of this information in a more convient way.
Checked exceptions actually have their uses, for "errors" which are not
very exceptional. Out of memory is highly unexpected. End of file isn't
quite as surprising. Not_found is another that shouldn't be that
surprising- although that leads to a different religous war.
Is there any research on using checked exceptions in an ML derived
language? Any plans/opinions on implementing checked exceptions in Ocaml?
Brian
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next reply other threads:[~2003-03-11 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-11 21:50 Brian Hurt [this message]
2003-03-12 5:40 ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-12 8:45 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-12 10:12 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-03-12 16:34 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-12 17:20 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2003-03-12 20:49 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-12 18:45 ` William Chesters
2003-03-12 3:00 Arturo Borquez
2003-03-12 3:24 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-03-12 3:43 ` mgushee
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