Re: [VOTE] Exceptions in the engine
| From: | Levi Morrison | Date: | Sat, 16 May 2015 18:44:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [VOTE] Exceptions in the engine | ||
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On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Stanislav Malyshev
<smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> There's nothing that prevents us from reneging on that by another
>> vote. If it's a bad decision backed by logical arguments then we can
>
> That's a pretty big if, given that your only argument - that it is a BC
> break - is incorrect, as in fact the set of exceptions caught before and
> after change is exactly the same, and the only difference is that in the
> new code, you can *also* catch errors, the option that you didn't have
> before. Absent that argument, there's no reason to renege.
You are incorrect. The set of exceptions that
catch (Exception)
catches is all exceptions by its definition. By altering it to no
longer include all exceptions means the semantics of it changed.