Re: [DotGNU]binary reader

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Friday 20 February 2004 01:36 am, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann wrote:

> instead of long investigation why an application causes
> NullReferenceException which says nothing and occurs in the wrong place.

And then we get other users complaining that "pnet crashes".  Both returning 
null and throwing an exception are difficult to track down.  i.e. same 
problem, but a different symptom.

> Could you manage to change this.

It's my personal coding style to return a semi-reasonable value and mark it 
with TODO rather than crash the system dead.  There are hundreds of these in 
the code and it would be a waste of time to change them all.  Blindly 
changing them also runs the risk of breaking something that does expect to 
see a semi-reasonable return value if the function isn't supported.

> Is there a chance it will be implemented

Eventually.  Or sooner if someone like yourself would volunteer to fix it.  I 
can't do everything myself.

Cheers,

Rhys.