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Offline Camel

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throw null;
« on: September 16, 2009, 01:47:00 pm »
...will crash your catch block

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Re: throw null;
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2009, 02:12:14 pm »
You shouldn't go throwing things that don't exist. Liable to cause an anomaly, it is.

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Re: throw null;
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2009, 07:24:41 pm »
is that kind of like tricking a dog into running after nothing while playing fetch?

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Re: throw null;
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2009, 07:35:01 pm »
Or naming it "Stay" and telling it to "come here" all the time?

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Re: throw null;
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2009, 07:59:46 pm »
...will crash your catch block

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In .NET I'm pretty sure it would simply generate a NullReferenceException (analogous to NullPointerException in Java) in the stack frame in which the "throw null" existed which could bubble up to a higher stack frame with the appropriate handler.

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