Re: NYIException

[Michael Koch]

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Am Samstag, 27. September 2003 11:11 schrieb Jeroen Frijters:

> > Have you misread Andrew's comment ? I read it exaclty the other
> > way around then you.
>
> I didn't misread it, I just strongly disagree with it. If Andrew's
> argument was the reason UnsupportedOperationException was chosen, I
> think we need to reconsider.

Yes.

> Surely there is defensively written code out there that handles
> UnsupportedOperationException (for example, when dealing with
> collections), this will consume our UnsupportedOperationException
> (which really means something quite different) and make diagnosing
> the problem extremely hard. When an application depends on missing
> functionality I want to see the exception and reduce the chance
> that the app accidentally eats the exception.


Well, thats my concern too. Summarized inheriting from either 
UnsupportedOperationException or Error is bad. Just inheriting from 
Exception might not be.

Michael
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