RE: Patch: merge File.toURI() from Classpath

[David Daney]

Stephen Crawley writes:
>I'm also going to submit a bug report about the JDK's widespread abuse
>of RuntimeException.  IMO, they should either throw InternalError (or
>its replacement) or they should define some appropriate subtypes of
>RuntimeException and throw those.

I agree.  IMHO RuntimeException exists for exactly two reasons:
 
1)  To be subclassed.
2)  To be caught.
 
It should never be thrown.
 
I don't much like religious wars, but I am stuck using libgcj.  So I can't just 
walk away.
I must stand and fight for what I believe in!
 
David Daney