Re: Inheritance.
"John C. Bollinger" <jobollin@indiana.edu> wrote in message
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Mike Schilling wrote:
"Patricia Shanahan" <pats@acm.org> wrote in message
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[Throwing an exception from a method that overrides a method not declared
as throwing that exception]
3. Create an exception that extends RuntimeException. This is a
potentially dangerous move, because it circumvents the compile time
checks for exception handling.
But sometimes necessary. Consider, as an example, an Iterator that
returns successive lines from a file. If calling next() results in an
IOException reading the file, I don't see any alternative to wrapping it
in some sort of RuntimeException and throwing the result.
Just to nitpick, the Iterator could catch the IOException if it ever
occurs, and treat it the same as normal end of input. It could in that
case comply with its contract for hasNext() by always reading one line
ahead.
Wrong semantics, though, since returning false from hasNext() implies that
it's successfully returned all the lines there are.
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