Multi-catch/final rethrow

[Neal Gafter]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I was looking at your explanation
> >> However, if an Exception is thrown from the try block it should be
> caught
> >> in the "catch(final Exception e)" clause even if the exception is cast
> to
> >> Throwable since catch clauses work based on the runtime class of the
> >> exceptions being thrown.
>
> The method is declared to only throw checked exception B. According to
> your explanation, the "(Throwable)new Exception()" is caught by "final
> Exception e" handler and re-throws -- but it's not of type B.
>
> Isn't this an error?
>

Paul-

This should be an error.  That's why the correction Joe discussed was made
to the spec.  The original spec allowed this program without error.

Cheers,
Neal