Re: About stub methods

[Michael Koch]

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Am Montag, 29. September 2003 22:43 schrieb Andrew Haley:
> Mark Wielaard writes:
>  > stub methods are a bad thing to have and should just be treated
>  > as grave bugs.
>  >
>  > Having those method because they allow people to compile against
>  > GNU Classpath but not run against it really doesn't make much
>  > sense. Let people fix either their code or help us implement the
>  > missing functionality.
>  >
>  > If you find such a method in the source please just remove it
>  > and file a bug report about it (possibly with as bug message the
>  > partial implementation).
>
> Hey, hey.  I could not agree more.  I thought this would be a hard
> thing for me to push, but it looks like I'd be pushing at an open
> door.
>
> No more stub methods!  A pox on them!

Wow, I would have never thought that somebody could share my thoughts. 
In my beginnings of classpath and libgcj hacking I was a big fan of 
stubbed methods. But now I see that much methods can be stubbed 
easily and tools like japitools have a hard time to tell if the 
method is implemented or just a stub.

I vote for no more stubs too.


Michael
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