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Why do "checked exceptions", i.e., "value-or-error return values", work well in Rust and Go but not in Java?
Java has "checked exceptions", which force the caller of the method to either handle an exception or to rethrow it, e.g.
// requires ParseException to be handled or rethrown
int i = ...
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Why is Throwable initCause designed to be called only once?
I find it really odd that the initCause method of Java's Throwable class can only be called once, or even not at all (if the constructor accepting a Throwable was used). This makes exception chaining ...
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I've been told that Exceptions should only be used in exceptional cases. How do I know if my case is exceptional?
My specific case here is that the user can pass in a string into the application, the application parses it and assigns it to structured objects. Sometimes the user may type in something invalid. ...
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