Re: Re: distinguishing between failures and errors

neil_swingler wrote:

>--- In junit@xxxx, Eric Heikkila <ericheikkila@xxxx> wrote:
> 
>
>>Fear (of my coworkers or even sometimes of myself)
>>makes me tend to use checked versus unchecked
>>exceptions.
>>
>In my experience those same untrustworthy coworkers are the ones
>who when forced to handle a checked exception will write:
>
>catch(Exception e){}
>
>Apart from making refactoring harder, checked exceptions also
>make exception handling code more error prone. These are things
>I have seen frequently where developers write code to handle checked
>exceptions:
>
>o Do nothing
>o Print/log message (but not the stacktrace)
>o Wrap the exception but lose the cause exception and it's stacktrace
>o catch Exception (also catches all those RuntimeExceptions they
>  had forgotten about
>

How does using unchecked exceptions help those developers?

Mike


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