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Definition of 'throwable'

English

Adjective

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  • (computing|programming) That can be thrown in the manner of an exception.
  • * 1997 , Babak Sadr, Grady Booch, Unified objects: object-oriented programming using C++
  • For an object to be throwable , it must be directly or indirectly derived from the Throwable class.
  • * 2001 , Alan Burns, Andrew J Wellings, Real-time systems and programming languages
  • In general, each function may specify a list of throwable objects...
  • * 2006 , William Von Hagen, The definitive guide to GCC
  • ...if you need to make certain symbols visible externally for debugging purposes or for catching exceptions for throwable entities within a library.
  • That can be thrown (in any other context)
  • Derived terms

    * throwability

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (computing|programming) A throwable object
  • Exceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables .