Proposal: Automatic Resource Management

[Neal Gafter]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:
> No, we don't agree on this one: I don't believe there is a problem.

I guess we disagree on that.  I believe it is not appropriate for a
language construct to generate code equivalent to

    catch (Exception ignored) { /* discarded */ }

when the exception may represent program/programmer error.