[dtech]

Wouldn't this be much more suitable to do in an IDE or compiler? Raising exceptions during runtime seems the wrong approach to me. I wouldn't be suprised if this is possible and used in e.g. Mylyn.

Another idea would be to automatically create a task/bug/issue for every TODO created (which closes when the TODO is removed)

[theforgottenone]

or an IDE that just scans the code files, picks out the lines of comments containing "TODO" and put them in a list in the gui, so you see it all the time.

Or generate a compile warning instead of a comment. Then it will annoy you constantly, with no risk to production.

[sootzoo]

I think he makes the case (and I agree) that if you create a substantial number of TODOs and they manifest as IDE/compile-time warnings, they eventually become noise which you learn to ignore instead of fix.