[jdom-interest] NoSuch*Exceptions in JDOM

Brett McLaughlin brett.mclaughlin at lutris.com
Mon Jul 10 06:38:44 PDT 2000


Petri Wessman wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 12:55:49 -0700, Jason Hunter <jhunter at acm.org> said:
> 
> >> Unfortunately, Messrs. McLaughlin and Hunter seem to prefer a frenzy of
> >> exceptions.
> 
> Jason> I'm still flexible.  But let me say, I'm not swayed by the
> Jason> "ivory tower" question of "is this exceptional or not"
> 
> Beside the "is it good design" argument, you should take into account
> the fact that throwing and catching exceptions carries a heavy
> performance penalty in Java. There is a good, practical reason for

Where is your documentation for this? I don't believe that this is
accurate, but I'm willing to be proved wrong. Could you post docs or a
URL?

Thanks,
Brett

> avoiding exceptions in the normal flow of a program.
> 
> //Petri
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