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8 months ago@Maoo @onlinepersona
That’s unfair. Java did everyone a huge favour by giving a practical demonstration of why (mandatory) checked exceptions are awful.
Fictional extinct arboreal pack predator, or whatever sort of hominid would choose that as a profile.
@Maoo @onlinepersona
That’s unfair. Java did everyone a huge favour by giving a practical demonstration of why (mandatory) checked exceptions are awful.
@Sternout @jnovinger
Maybe, but (apart from the “Accidental Immortalisation” case mentioned in PEP 683) these things are created deliberately by C extensions.
A sane extension shouldn’t be building loads of them on the fly in the first place.
@FinishingDutch @ahornsirup
But Wikipedia aren’t charging people to see the work you contributed for free. That’s a significant difference.