[swift-evolution] Move placement of 'throws' statement

[Derrick Ho]

Daniel Leping, I am unfamiliar with java. Do you have any resources that
describe the nightmare in detail?
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 2:50 AM Tino Heth <2th at gmx.de> wrote:

> -1 for specifying errors for throws. Please don't. Proven by practice in
> java it's a nightmare.
>
> In Java, this topic is really interesting:
> It sounds like a great idea, but in real-life situations, afaics everyone
> hates checked exceptions.
>
> But Swift isn't Java, and our error handling is different from most
> established languages, so imho we shouldn't base that decision on
> experiences from other models only:
> I don't see downsides, because you already need "try" for everything that
> can throw, and afaics, it would be easy to ignore the information that only
> a set of exceptions can happen in a given context.
>
> So, imho before there is a decision wether "throws" should be moved, the
> possibility to annotate it with a fixed set of error types should be either
> abandoned or incorporated.
>
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