Disambiguating empty catch blocks

[Andrew Thompson]

On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:49 AM, Bruce Chapman wrote:

>> One thing we definitely can do is to add a new constructor
>> to AssertionError, that takes a cause as an argument,
>> consistent with other exceptions.
>> 
> Yeah, that was a minor niggle - I'll check  for an RFE and get the ball started on that.


Actually, it does exist, it is just disguised as taking Object:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/AssertionError.html#AssertionError(java.lang.Object)

It you want to RFE, I guess

AssertionError(String additionalDetails, Throwable cause) 

is the missing method.


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