Re: Can't pass exceptions with Java 7 : java.lang.Throwable.suppressedExceptions

On May 15, 2012, at 4:33, Thomas Leonard wrote:

> Losing the exception type seems OK to me, since it fits in with the general E idea of exceptions not having interesting types. And in fact, I usually turn all exceptions into RuntimeException if they might go over CapTP, since the receiver often doesn't have the exception type in its classpath.

Just a clarification: there is certainly not a general E idea of *throwing out exception type information*, or rather, insofar as there is, it is because our exception handling is severely immature. There has not been enough (design response to) E application code which actually needs to recover from specific errors.

The prototype and plans I referred to are about making exception types a matter of data rather than distinct classes, not about throwing out exception types entirely.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>