[Mono-list] "Not supported"

[Piers Haken]

I think you can just 'throw new NotSupportedException();'

I wouldn't bother doing this for stuff that's in the ACMA standard. ECMA
provides an XML document with the complete spec and documentation in it.
It should be trivial to write an XSL stylesheet to generate the stubbed
out classes with doc-comments, attributes & exceptions directly from
this. I think this is exactly that Intel did with their CLR work.

I have to say that I don't think that filling out the class definitions
is necessarily a good idea. I think it would be much better to leave
them commented out, then when someone's adding a new feature that relies
on the implementation of some method the compiler will tell them that
it's not implemented as opposed to them having to track it down at
runtime. ideally the only things that should throw
NotImplementedExceptions are implementations of some interface methods.

Piers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.toronto.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:28 PM
To: Mono Mailing List
Subject: [Mono-list] "Not supported"


What do I do about methods that say "Not supported" on the
documentation?

For example:

Not supported. The IList.Contains method indicates whether a specified
object is contained in the list.
...
[C#]
public bool Contains(
   Image image
);
...




Daniel.


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