ARM: preserve supressed exceptions due to throw in finally block

[Neal Gafter]

This is the feedback thread from over a year ago I am discussing on
another thread.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: ARM: preserve supressed exceptions due to throw in finally block
To: Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com>
Cc: Carlos Costa e Silva <carlos at keysoft.pt>, coin-dev at openjdk.java.net


On 04/08/10 11:27 AM, Neal Gafter wrote:
>
> Carlos-
>
> This has the same problem as the proposal for handling suppressed exceptions
> in ARM: we have no experience to suggest that this way of preserving
> suppressed exceptions is usable in realistic programs.  This
> software-engineering aspect of ARM language design seems to have been
> largely ignored.  I think more study of such software engineering aspects
> would be well advised before ARM or any extensions to it are moved into the
> jdk.
>
> Cheers,
> Neal
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Carlos Costa e Silva <carlos at keysoft.pt>wrote:
>
>
>

I would expect such study to be able to commence in earnest after
there is a version of ARM available in the JDK for people to play
with.

Language features of course evolve and are tuned as people gain
experience with them; this was true of generics I would expect this to
be true of ARM too.

-Joe