Re: [ jEdit-devel ] jEdit.openFile() can return null now

[Slava P. <sp...@gj...>]

"Kevin A. Burton" wrote:
> -1.
> 
> throw an Exception, it *must* be caught.  This will break a lot of
> things but if they are required to write to an Exception they won't even
> compile.
> 
> Kevin

-1 on the exception. It will mean that *all* plugins that call openFile()
will need to be modified. If it returns null, very few plugins will need
fixing. And having an exception will needlessly complicate the code in
most cases.

Slava