Re: distinguishing between failures and errors

--- In junit@xxxx, Mike Clark <mike@xxxx> wrote:
> neil_swingler wrote:
> >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?
> 

If they don't have to write any exception handling code they can't 
code errors into it. The exceptions can propogate to a single
point to be logged.