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* Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...> [2005-01-04 19:09]: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:41 +0000, Kirkham, Pete (UK) wrote: > Exactly. Real life error conditions almost never fall along the > neat lines that strongly, statically typed language designers > draw. I don't think I can recall having *ever* had a program fail > because someone passed a float to a routine that expected an int. > Most errors by most competent programmers (IMO) are of much > sterner stuff. And the problems with most strongly, statically > typed languages is that their strong typing decreases > expressiveness of axioms to the extent that it's not even easy to > arrange to catch the real sorts of errors that can occur > (although, luckily the recently revived test-first philosophy is > helping a lot with that). Funny, it's almost like your referencing the Java SAX error handling thread. Checked exceptions, I find, give Java programmers a false sense of code correctness. A bigger boon-doggle than strong typing, from which I derive real benefit. -- Alan Gutierrez - alan@e...
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