throwable

English

Etymology

From throw +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

throwable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being thrown.
2. (programming) Capable of being 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.

Derived terms

• throwability

Translations

capable of being thrown

French: lançable (fr) German: werfbar Swedish: kastbar Turkish: atılır

(programming) capable of being thrown in the manner of an exception

Noun

throwable (plural throwables)

1. Something that is throwable.
   • 1997, Carol des Lauriers Cieri, Donna Gold, “Fairs”, in The Insiders’ Guide to Maine’s Mid-Coast, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Daily News Enterprises; Manteo, N.C.: Insiders’ Publishing, →ISBN, page 211:

     Speaking of cycling, most things are recycled: There are bins for paper and bins for cans. Most plastic throwables are simply not allowed (though organizers haven’t quite found a substitute for forks, spoons and knives).

   • 2003, Jonas Langer, Susan Rivera, Matthew Schlesinger, Ann Wakeley, “Early Cognitive Development: Ontogeny and Phylogeny”, in Jaan Valsiner, Kevin J[oseph] Connolly, editors, Handbook of Developmental Psychology, London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, published 2005, →ISBN, part 2 (Prenatal and Infant Development), page 146:

     Transforming objects’ states identically by manipulating them in the same way affords infants a way to begin constructing functional equivalence classes even when the objects do not belong to the same predicate class (Piaget, 1952a). For example, simultaneously throwing a doll and a cup transforms both into functionally equivalent ‘throwables.’

   • 2013 January, Toby McCasker, “When Vikings Attack!”, in Adam Mathew, editor, PlayStation Official Magazine – Australia, number 77, Sydney, N.S.W., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74:

     Aside from chucking things, you can also dash – useful for stealing throwables right out of the opposition’s meaty hands or even catching objects mid-air as they sail right at you.

2. (programming) Any object that can be thrown in the manner of an exception.

   Exceptions are thrown when some module of the project detects an error condition or if it handles some standard Java throwables.

Translations

(programming) any object that can be thrown in the manner of an exception

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