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RE: Patch: merge File.toURI() from Classpath
- From: "David Daney" <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
- To: "Stephen Crawley" <crawley at dstc dot edu dot au>,"Chris Pickett" <chris dot pickett at mail dot mcgill dot ca>
- Cc: "Bryce McKinlay" <mckinlay at redhat dot com>,<java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>,<classpath at gnu dot org>,<crawley at piglet dot dstc dot edu dot au>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:34:42 -0700
- Subject: RE: Patch: merge File.toURI() from Classpath
Stephen Crawley writes:
>I'm also going to submit a bug report about the JDK's widespread abuse
>of RuntimeException. IMO, they should either throw InternalError (or
>its replacement) or they should define some appropriate subtypes of
>RuntimeException and throw those.
I agree. IMHO RuntimeException exists for exactly two reasons:
1) To be subclassed.
2) To be caught.
It should never be thrown.
I don't much like religious wars, but I am stuck using libgcj. So I can't just walk away.
I must stand and fight for what I believe in!
David Daney