Hi, On Wednesday, 2009-03-11 09:00:45 +0100, Frank Schönheit wrote:
> > OTOH designing exceptions right is very hard and often needs a lot of > > thinking. So I don't expect that we can fix that in a "big bang" > > release, we will need quite some time to fix that. > > I would be happy if we would allow for such fixing. I don't want to fix > all of those at the same time, but being able to fix them incrementally, > as they bite me, would be great. Unfortunately, adding exceptions to a method changes the API contract, so fixing things incrementally would incrementally destabilize API use. We'll need some versioned API for this. I guess many are missing such thing and didn't do useful but not required changes for just the reason of API compatibility. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. SunSign 0x87F8D412 : 2F58 5236 DB02 F335 8304 7D6C 65C9 F9B5 87F8 D412 OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't send personal mail to the e...@sun.com account, which I use for mailing lists only and don't read from outside Sun. Use er...@sun.com Thanks.
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