On 1/28/07, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Phil Steitz wrote:
> I am interested in what others have to
> say about this as a general practice for commons. For [math] specifically,
> I think it is important that we can fit seamlessly into localized
> applications, and we are refactoring our exceptions hierarchy anyway, so I
> say go for it.
I disagree strongly with the whole concept of localized exception
messages. Localization for users yes, but developers no.
Java's cool in that you could code much of it in a localized way, but
our libraries are generally all written for US-English. If we're
expecting the developers to be able to read our methods and Javadoc, I
don't see why we can't expect them to read the error messages too.
So I'm in agreement with Stephen. Users need it, developers don't for
the large majority of our components.
Hen
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