Time to put a stop to Thread.stop?

[Stephen Colebourne]

I'd humbly suggest that a sneakyThrow would be a very desirable
addition to the public JDK API.
Stephen

On 25 May 2013 12:35, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 24/05/2013 19:14, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>
>> :
>>
>> Alan, you're telling everyone there's no need for Thread.stop, but you are
>> replacing usages in tests with calls to Unsafe, which is not available to
>> normal code.  So you have a kind of moral obligation here to replace usages
>> with "ordinary" java code.  There are other ways to do sneakyThrow, and
>> perhaps a sneakyRethrow method should be added to the jdk test library.
>
> For these the tests then it shouldn't really matter but if you or Doug would
> prefer if they are changed to use sneakyThrow then we can do that.
>
> -Alan.