When it comes to exceptions, its not even a matter of semantics and needing to be very clever. There are cases where exceptions in Java just don't carry over to

When it comes to exceptions, its not even a matter of semantics and needing to be very clever. There are cases where exceptions in Java just don't carry over to Objective-C. A really good example of this is NullPointerException. Objective-C lets you message null (although, its called nil in this context) without any problem.