Re: Trash Can and Sun

On Fri, 30 May 2008 14:22:21 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

Maybe. If the semantics of Desktop.moveToTrash(File) are that it moves
something to the trash, then is a permanent delete a good fallback? If i
let a user put things in the trash, but actually delete them, then later
he finds out his files are gone forever, am i not guilty of misleading
him?

An exception might be best I suppose.

Actually maybe not. 99.9% of the time the exception will be handled by
deleting the file.

I wish that Java had a method for specifying default exception handlers
for cases when the exception isn't caught. Maybe with a different
hierarchy, ExceptionWithDefaultHanlder or some such.

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