3 ms·

You've never seen the Java "pattern" of try { foo(); } catch (Exception e) { ; } ?

• mcguire 11y ago
  This is not idiomatic Java code and in my experience not many competent people will do this. New Java programmers who ask for help with a piece of code that ignores the error are told immediately to check the error. And experienced Java programmers simply do not ignore the error. Also, you don't need the semicolon.
  • jfb 11y ago
    It's not idiomatic, or good, but neither is ignoring the return value from a go function call. Both languages fail to provide better affordances for error checking.
    • mcguire 11y ago
      That it's bad style is kind of the point: The standard response from Go advocates is that ignoring errors is not idiomatic, but it's not good style anywhere, in any language where it isn't outright illegal.
      • jfb 11y ago
        I think we're in violent agreement. I wasn't saying that Go's affordances solve this problem, merely pointing out that checked exceptions in Java aren't any kind of a dispositive solution.