Should the `kotlinx.coroutines.experimental.Timeou...

# coroutines

[rogeralsing]

Should the kotlinx.coroutines.experimental.TimeoutException really be private? I can catch CancellationException which is the base, but still?

[elizarov]

@rogeralsing What is your use-case to catch it?

[rogeralsing]

request / response communication with actors

[rogeralsing]

CancellationException works, so its not a real issue

[rogeralsing]

I was mostly surprised that I could not write tests that expected the actually thrown type

[elizarov]

That is a valid use-case, though. A reason to think about making it public. Recorded this idea: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/89