Re: NYIException

[Ingo Prötel]

Hi Sascha,


Sascha Brawer wrote:
> Ingo Prötel <address@hidden> wrote on Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:56:23 +0200:
>
>
> > I would like to again propose a standard NYIException to be used in 
> > Classpath.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > package gnu.org.classpath;
>
>
> Are you sure about this package name?

This should be
package gnu.classpath;
> > public class NYIException extends UnsupportedOperationException 
>
>
> I'd favor "NotYetImplementedException". Class names tend to be very
> verbose in Java, and IMHO it would make sense to follow that style.

We can certainly do this. I also appreciate if an exception name already 
 describes the problem. But I also must caution against using too long 
names. Especially for classes with inner classes. Such Classes result in 
very long class-filenames. Some Systems have hard limits on these names.
Something like: Collections$UnmodifiableMap$UnmodifiableEntrySet$1$1.class
will not work on a QNX system with a limit of 48 chars in a filename.

But since this will likely not be a problem on an exception I will take 
the long name.

--ingo

> -- Sascha
>
> Sascha Brawer, address@hidden, http://www.dandelis.ch/people/brawer/