Feedback and comments on ARM proposal - resend

[Joshua Bloch]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Good point.

        Josh