RFR [15] 8161558: ListIterator should not discard cause on exception

[Stuart Marks]

On 2/25/20 8:01 AM, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
>> If the IOOBE is noise, it can be ignored.

> You are forcing all primary users to ignore something that is useful only for the secondary users.
> Given that the ratio between primary vs secondary users is at least 100 000 for 1 if not more, that's a lot of noise to filter.
> I don't think chaining exception IOOBE to a NSEE worth the cost here.

Hi Rémi,

I really do not see the cost here. Most information in an exception (such as the 
stack trace itself, including classes, methods, and line numbers, along with any 
chained exceptions) is about implementation. Perhaps most users don't care about 
this. However, if you're debugging a system, you care about the implementation 
details, and this information is essential. In fact, the more information there 
is, the better. You're effectively arguing to throw stuff away. Continuing this 
line of reasoning, maybe we should discard the stack traces below the public API 
boundary, since most users don't care about it, since it's just internal 
implementation details of the JDK.

No, I don't think so.

s'marks