Timeline for In Java, what are checked exceptions good for?
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| Nov 16, 2010 at 4:41 | comment | added | user1249 | null-checking is a much greater pain - you ALWAYS have to check - plus it does not tell the reason why, which a well-named exception does. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 4:23 | comment | added | Dan Rosenstark | haha, never thought about that checking for null thing as a decision they didn't make... But I finally understood that it's NOT an innate problem after working in Objective-C, which allows nulls to have methods called. | |
| Nov 16, 2010 at 2:07 | history | answered | Macneil | CC BY-SA 2.5 |