Re: News for Java?
On 08-01-2011 21:21, Mike Schilling wrote:
"Arne Vajh?j" <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote in message
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On 06-01-2011 22:39, Mike Schilling wrote:
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On 05-01-2011 23:41, Mike Schilling wrote:
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On 05-01-2011 15:54, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Mike Schilling wrote:
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Even Java has at least one place I know of where the JDK API
requires
you to pass an array so that the method can return more than one
value and do so without allocating a new object each call.
It would be neater (IMHO) for InputStream.get() to be defined
boolean get(out char c)
than
int get()
with a special return value that means "there wasn't one".
Even better:
byte get() throws EndOfFileException
Although i know that many would not agree with me on that.
It is a nicer API.
Not if every loop requires a catch block, it isn't.
You should handle IOException anyway.
Sure, but not by exiting the loop and proceeding as if nothing had gone
wrong.
True.
But then I also wrote:
#If EndOfFileException were indeed exceptional, then I could
#not see the problem.
If you know how big the file is supposed to be and you reach EOF
prematurely then that is not different from getting another
read error.
Given those preconditions, I agree. But they're not (in my experience)
the common ones.
I agree.
Arne
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