I neglected to mention that Commons Math *should* document what exceptions
are to be expected. If a method is designed to throw NPE because of a null
argument (whether through explicit checking or not), @throws should mention
that.
Paul
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Adrian Crum <
adrian.c...@sandglass-software.com> wrote:
> I agree with this view. It would help the developer who uses CM if the
> library told him/her what they did wrong ("argument 'foo' cannot be null")
> instead of a simple exception thrown message ("NullPointerException thrown
> at line nnn of class Xyz").
>
> -Adrian
>
>
> On 3/2/2011 3:37 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote:
>
>> In my view, the
>> exceptions are good if they allow to easily track down bugs (be they in CM
>> or in user code). Accordingly they must precisely point to the source of
>> the
>> problem (in the code) and not try to outguess the user (as to what it
>> should mean for him).
>>
>>
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