Comments on: Project Coin – a handful of change http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/ Alex Miller's technical blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:39:50 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Josh Bloch http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-150314 Josh Bloch Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:51:24 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/#comment-150314 The problem is that we silently ignore exceptions thrown by the close of the file that was open for write. These exceptions indicate that the copy operation failed! Josh The problem is that we silently ignore exceptions thrown by the close of the file that was open for write. These exceptions indicate that the copy operation failed!

Josh

]]> By: Marc Munio http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-150287 Marc Munio Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:20:21 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/#comment-150287 String Literals ? wow, wasnt expecting that. Java7 might be cool. String Literals ? wow, wasnt expecting that. Java7 might be cool.

]]> By: grayger http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-150269 grayger Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:03:15 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/#comment-150269 Josh Bloch said "the solution on page 88 of Bloch and Gafter’s *Java Puzzlers* (Addison-Wesley, 2006) is badly broken, and no one ever noticed" in his proposal. Anybody knows what is wrong with it? Josh Bloch said “the solution on page 88 of Bloch
and Gafter’s *Java Puzzlers* (Addison-Wesley, 2006) is badly broken, and no one ever noticed” in his proposal. Anybody knows what is wrong with it?

]]> By: Alex Cruise http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-150257 Alex Cruise Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:49:50 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/#comment-150257 And <a href="http://cluonflux.com/article/37/project-wallet-was-why-bother-just-use-scala" rel="nofollow">the mocking continues</a> apace, now under a new rallying cry: Project Wallet: Why Settle for a Handful of Coins? :) And the mocking continues apace, now under a new rallying cry:

Project Wallet: Why Settle for a Handful of Coins? :)

]]> By: Alex http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/comment-page-1/#comment-150244 Alex Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:37:39 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/03/08/project-coin-proposals/#comment-150244 Crap, not sure how I missed it but I hadn't seen Joe's summary! That's what being on an airplane all weekend will do. Crap, not sure how I missed it but I hadn’t seen Joe’s summary! That’s what being on an airplane all weekend will do.

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