[concurrency-interest] Review for CR 6728865 : Improved heuristics for Collections.disjoint() [updated]

[Chris Hegarty]

On 12/22/10 03:34 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 9:10 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> On 12/22/10 03:07 PM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>>> On 12/22/2010 02:45 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>>>> Have we thought about catching/swallowing these exceptions?
>>>
>>> What do you want to do in the catch block ?
>>
>> Would it make sense to simply swallow the exception ( do nothing ) and
>> continue
>> with the next element? Clearly if contains() throws and Exception then
>> the
>> collection does not contain the given element?
>
> It seems that Logger use here might be useful. A FINE level log of the
> stack trace would allow the user to discover why the failure/success
> return was not as they expected. From some perspectives, I'd be tempted
> to log at WARNING for myself as this does represent an unexpected, yet
> non-fatal condition in the software.

Yes, this is a good proposal. I guess we need to establish whether we 
consider passing these "incompatible" collections a programmer error or 
not. I was just trying to ensure that we had considered all options.

-Chris.

>
> Gregg Wonderly