The Philosophy of Nothing

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:

> Does the spec prevent defining method that can neither return nor throw?
>
> public Nothing func() throws Nothing { }
>

No, because Java has unchecked exceptions, and for other reasons that will
be more clear when part b (0.6b) is published.

I can't imagine what the value would be of adding such restrictions to the
specification or compiler.

Cheers,
Neal
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