allan.jacobs@Eng 1997-03-21

The methods Integer.parseInt and Long.parseLong throw
ArithmeticExceptions when fed a radix of 0. The specification says
that they should throw NumberFormatExceptions when this happens.
See sections 20.7.18 and 20.8.18 .

algol% cat excps.java

class excps {
        public static void main ( String[] argv ) {
                int i;
                try {
                        i = Integer.parseInt("11",0);
                        System.out.println( i );
                }
                catch ( NumberFormatException e ) {
                        System.out.println( "11,0: NumberFormatException" );
                }
                catch ( ArithmeticException e ) {
                        System.out.println( "11,0: ArithmeticException" );
                }

                long l;
                try {
                        l = Long.parseLong("11",0);
                        System.out.println( l );
                }
                catch ( NumberFormatException e ) {
                        System.out.println( "11,0: NumberFormatException" );
                }
                catch ( ArithmeticException e ) {
                        System.out.println( "11,0: ArithmeticException" );
                }
        }
}

algol% javac excps.java
algol% java excps
11,0: ArithmeticException
11,0: ArithmeticException