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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by mrkeen on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:26AM (#36720161)
> If so can you now understand why you would want to be alerted about a new exception getting thrown at compile-time as well?

The library code can already throw anything. OutOfHeap, over/underflow, div0, stackoverflow, threadinterrupted. The caller already knows the function can throw, and documenting one more flavour of throw doesn't tell the caller anything.

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Re:Unchecked Java: Say Goodbye to Checked Exceptions Forever by twelve40 on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:32AM (#36720192)
> documenting one more flavour of throw doesn't tell the caller anything

but it does, in cases when there are errors that can or should be retried. Like a whitelist of documented cases where recovery and retry are possible, and of course all this infinite runtime stuff that can happen unexpectedly, for which there is no immediate solution.

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