Feedback and comments on ARM proposal - resend

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Joshua Bloch <jjb at google.com> wrote:
> I don't think it's realistic, ever, to change this because it isn't
> compatible to take a throws clause off of an overridable method: it breaks
> subtypes.

It's not even compatible to remove a throws clause from a
non-overridable method!  That's because it would break callers who
invoke it in a try-catch statement.