1   /*
2    *  LazyProgrammerException.java
3    *
4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2005, 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 1.7 2005/01/11 13:51:37 ian 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