Compiler flag to turn off checked exceptions

[Joe Darcy]

On 03/24/09 02:21 PM, phil swenson wrote:
> Not sure if this is a Project Coin thing, but has anyone thought about
> a compiler flag to turn off checked exceptions?  I'm sure everyone
> knows the arguments against checked exceptions, I'd love to have the
> ability to just turn them off so I don't have to wrap them in
> RuntimeExceptions.
>
> Not sure what the implications of this are.....
>
> thoughts?
>
>   

 From the proposal form on the Project Coin homepage:
> The proposal must not remove existing features of the language; for 
> example, "Get rid of checked exceptions" would not be considered. 

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/

-Joe