Re:Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Mes...
by brazzy on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:42PM
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Oh, I've been around since the 1.2 days as well. Somehow, exception chaining didn't register as a big change when it happened. But yeah, incremental improvements have been pretty important as well.
Re:Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Mes...
by jdmichal on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:10PM
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I agree regarding the chaining. I don't even remember thinking twice about it when it was introduced. But the ability to transform exception types without losing the original context and stack trace is actually a pretty big deal!
I'm only posting this because I find a lot of people forgetting that Java has had a very long history at this point. And that many of the things we take for granted in the language today did not always exist. I still remember when generics were released. Get off my lawn.