Throwable

[Raffaello Giulietti]

Patrick Wright wrote:
> The issue of InvokeDynamic calls from Java as regards checked
> exceptions was discussed on the Project Coin mailing list:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-May/thread.html#1650
> 
> see the mails related to "JSR 292" and others with "292" in the title.
> See for example this partial thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-May/001647.html
> 
> There's more there across several threads, sorry I don't have time to
> filter it out, but basically, InvokeDynamic calls from Java will be
> required to declare the Throwable. This also comes up in this thread
> (doesn't have 292 in the title)
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-May/001868.html
> 
> 
> HTH
> Patrick
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Patrick, thanks for the references.

Unfortunately, they tend to exacerbate the eternal debate between
checked and unchecked exceptions and remind me the likely eternal debate
between statically and dynamically typed languages.

Fortunately, the JVM doesn't know about checked exceptions. Let's hope
this will remain so even in the future.