[Mono-list] "Not supported"

Nick Drochak ndrochak@gol.com
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:17:58 +0900


| 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.
|

I have to agree with this.

As far as testing goes, it will become useless to see a thousand errors in
the unit tests when 99% are just NotImplemented exceptions. What we want to
see are real live bugs.

Nick D.