Re: Trash Can and Sun
On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:57:20 -0400, Arne Vajh??j wrote:
Not exactly what I'm looking for. More along the lines of setting a
default method of handling an exception if there isn't something to
catch it. So we could happily ignore the ThreadInterruptedExeption and
such.
It would require a new hierarchy. Maybe DefaultedException.
I would say that method does that.
What do you need additionally ? The ability to only use it for specified
exceptions ? The ability to ignore the exception (not unroll the call
stack) ?
The ability for the class throwing the exception to specify the default
action, without preventing the calling code from catching the exception
(or any super class of the exception).
The tool you recommend is not fine grained enough. It allows only one
handler for all uncaught exceptions. I would envision any number of
default handlers being present at any given time. And they should be
automatically created by the constructors of some classes.
A different hierarchy is needed so that I can still catch Exception and
not interfere with the defaulted behavior of some exceptions.
I know that this would all break compatibility. I don't expect it to be
implemented. It just would have been a nice addition to the language.
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