From: Stephen Crawley <crawley@dstc.edu.au>
To: abies@pg.gda.pl
Cc: mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com, crawley@piglet.dstc.edu.au
Subject: Re: 600+ BigDecimal tests
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301200210.h0K2Asfh007156@piglet.dstc.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Artur Biesiadowski <abies00@wp.pl> of "Mon, 20 Jan 2003 02:21:16 +0100." <3E2B4F0C.7010205@wp.pl>
> Stephen Crawley wrote:
>
> > BTW. Has this question been debated / decided in the past? The reason
> > I ask is that application code may rely on exception message strings to
> > discriminate exception cases. IMO, this is a BAD THING (tm), but in some
> > cases, the application programmer may have little choice.
>
> This is doomed to failure from very start. Exception strings generated
> by system should be localized (so they can be shown to user in worst
> case). So there is no way to write language-portable program which looks
> at details of exception messages.
True ... but this doesn't stop programmers doing this kind of thing out of
ignorance or desperation. Still, I'm convinced that there is little value
in busting a gut to get identical exception messages.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-22 14:58 Anthony Green
2003-01-03 1:35 ` Mark Wielaard
2003-01-17 19:26 ` Mark Wielaard
2003-01-18 15:27 ` Dalibor Topic
2003-01-18 16:05 ` Mark Wielaard
2003-01-19 23:40 ` Stephen Crawley
2003-01-20 0:09 ` Anthony Green
2003-01-20 0:25 ` Stephen Crawley
2003-01-20 1:21 ` Artur Biesiadowski
2003-01-20 2:11 ` Stephen Crawley [this message]
2003-01-20 9:48 ` Dalibor Topic
2003-01-20 0:06 ` Anthony Green
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