TryCatchMandatory

DRAFT

Observed

Correction

Here is what's right.

You can surround the problematic code with a try/catch, but you do not have to. Specifically, if you want the exception to propagate to the caller, then you do not want to catch it. You just want to declare it (with throws in the method header).

public int m(int i) throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException {
  return c = a[i];
}

Or, in this case, where the exception is an unchecked exception (e.g., a subtype of RuntimeException), the declaration is not needed:

public int m(int i) {
  return c = a[i];
}

The ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException that could be thrown by the array indexing operator will be thrown to the caller of method m(), and if that caller does not catch it, it will be thrown to its caller, and so on. If nobody catches the exception, then the JVM will receive it, and it will print a stack trace.