On 2009-03-30, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/03/2009, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 2009-03-30, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Might it not be better to throw an Exception if methods are called out >>> of sequence? >> We are pretty inconsistent here. In general I agree it would be >> better to throw an exception, but we seem to swallow other errors in >> other classes. > In that case, why don't we fix the other classes? I took the fact that we are inconsistent as a hint that we don't know what we want to do. It could as well mean that we've just pulled together implementations with different ideas from three sources and haven't thought about making them consistent so far 8-) > If we document the required behaviour (e.g. in the abstract i/o > classes), then we can work towards making the code consistent. No problem with that. BTW, please add yourself as a comitter to the POM, you've by now contributed more than enough to be listed there. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
