| LazyProgrammerException.java |
1 /*
2 * LazyProgrammerException.java
3 *
4 * Copyright (c) 1998-2004, The University of Sheffield.
5 *
6 * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
7 * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
8 * Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
9 * and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
10 *
11 * Hamish Cunningham, 14/Feb/00
12 *
13 * $Id: LazyProgrammerException.java,v 1.6 2004/07/21 17:10:09 akshay Exp $
14 */
15
16 package gate.util;
17
18 /** What to throw in a method that hasn't been implemented yet.
19 * Yes, there are good reasons never to throw RuntimeExceptions
20 * and thereby sidestep Java's exception checking mechanism. But
21 * we're so lazy we don't care. And anyway, none of these are
22 * ever supposed to make it into released versions (who are we
23 * kidding?).
24 */
25 public class LazyProgrammerException extends RuntimeException {
26
27 /** Debug flag */
28 private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
29
30 /** In a fit of complete laziness we didn't even document this
31 * class properly.
32 */
33 public LazyProgrammerException() {
34 super(defaultMessage);
35 }
36
37 /** In a fit of complete laziness we didn't even document this
38 * class properly.
39 */
40 public LazyProgrammerException(String s) {
41 super(s + defaultMessage);
42 }
43
44 /** In a fit of complete laziness we didn't even document this
45 * class properly.
46 */
47 static String defaultMessage =
48 " It was Valentin's fault. I never touched it.";
49
50 } // LazyProgrammerException
51