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Interface on Exception

Posted by olivier on 18 Jun 1998, 6:44 AM

I agree that it's a good idea to subclass exception as the IOException exemple you give.
The problem is that it is not possible to give some throwable interface.
To fix the idea, it is impossible to have an IOException that is a RuntimeException at the same time.
Sun should have create Runtime as a kind of Interface (idem for IOException in a sense).

• Homogenous Families Bill Venners 18 Jun 1998, 10:26 AM (1)
  • Homogenous Families Mike Mannion 22 Jun 1998, 7:50 AM (0)