add arguments to NotImplemented calls
Archie Cobbs
archie at whistle.com
Fri May 21 12:01:53 PDT 1999
Patrick Tullmann writes:
> > Almost all descriptive strings you add contain the name of the method.
> > Remember that NotImplemented is a Throwable so printStackTrace() will
> > show you where the exception was throw (with source name and line number).
>
> Yep. But, I was debugging someone else's Java package and they were
> only printing th.getMessage() and moving on, so I had no idea which
> function wasn't implemented. While I could have routed around fixing
> their code, it seems to me that Kaffe should be as verbose as possible
> when reporting internal errors like these.
Yeah, I think it's useful too. The only thing I'd add is that you
can use Classname.class.getName() to avoid redundantly encoding the
class name.. pretty minor thing though.
-Archie
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