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unchecked exceptions are like runtime type checking?I've been having a running discussion with a coworker of mine. He's a big fan of Ruby, while I find its runtime type checking worrisome. His recent response to my concerns about runtime type checking is that in the Java arena people are pushing using unchecked (runtime) exceptions, and that unchecked exceptions are just as unsafe as runtime type checking. In a way I can see his argument, because in Ruby if you misspell a method name it will throw a method not found error, so you could look at Ruby's runtime type checking as simply a source of unchecked exceptions. But I have this sense that it's not quite that simple and can't put my finger on why. By lumpynose at 2006-08-25 00:42 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 22661 reads
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