Reducing "exception is never thrown in body of corresponding try statement" Error to a Warning

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Mike,

Given that you are proposing to change JLS[1], I think  you should get 
acceptance for the proposal before you embark on creating javac changsets.

-- Jon

[1]

  Specifically I am proposing the
removal of the following section from JLS 11.2.3

On 11/5/19 3:29 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Hello again;
>
> Hearing no specific objections to my prior suggestion 
> (https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-October/003480.html) 
> to tweak compilation of checked exceptions by reducing the "exception 
> is never thrown in body of corresponding try statement" compilation 
> error to a non-fatal warning I am going to proceed with creating a 
> JIRA issue and proceeding with proposing a changeset to the 
> compiler-dev list.
>
> I do agree with the sentiment that this change is of somewhat limited 
> value. It is, I believe, useful and incrementally an improvement upon 
> existing behaviour and worth pursuing in absence of grander proposals.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Mike
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