On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:26 PM, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 02:40:20 UTC, Jeremy Powers via Digitalmars-d wrote:

http://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html

The best sum up of checked exception you'll find.


 False.

Unless you mean 'the best sum up of the problems people have with checked
exceptions' - it gives a good description of how use of checked exceptions
often goes wrong.


Full stop. I made that mistake myself various time, so I can talk from experience here.

This is a completely wrong mindset. If people have problem with checked exception, then there IS a problem with checked exception, not people. You won't be able to change people, so you'd better focus on changing checked exceptions.


You are completely right.  Let me rephrase:

The article gives a good overview of the places where checked exceptions are weak, and where people have problems with them.  The things it mentions have best-practice work arounds (or are actually features), and do not invalidate all the usefulness that checked exceptions provide.

It would be great if there were some other scheme instead of checked exceptions, or a slightly different design of them, if it gave me the same advantages without the issues.  Unfortunately I have not seen one yet.