New protocol for disabling exception suppression

David Holmes David.Holmes at oracle.com
Sun Apr 3 15:34:18 PDT 2011


Rémi Forax said the following on 04/04/11 08:26:
> On 04/04/2011 12:11 AM, brucechapman at paradise.net.nz wrote:
>> Yes in a way it is second order. If it is a Throwable (rather than a subclass)
>> then you are saying it is not an Error, and it is not an Exception, and it is
>> not a RuntimeException! So what is it?
> 
> First, from the JLS point of view, exception are defined in term of 
> Throwable.
> The class j.l.Exception is not the root of all checked exceptions,
> it's j.l.Throwable.
> 
> j.l.Throwable is not an abstract class. So Throwable was not
> a second order citizen until recently.

Personally I don't have an issue with the new constructor being public. 
But I don't expect anyone to create a direct instance of Throwable in 
any realistic/practical situation.

David



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