State management would be valuable: I made it a Bug: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29163
Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 3:45 PM > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [lang] StopWatch stop vs. split? > > > Yep. They're meant to mimic the stopwatch I had as a kid :) Split would > set the time, but let the stopwatch carry on working wheras stop would set > the time and stop the watch continuing. > > The implementation ended up being the same. The only thing I can think of > is to throw Exceptions if people try to call split or stop again. > > Hen > > On Wed, 19 May 2004, matthew.hawthorne wrote: > > > Gary Gregory wrote: > > > The StopWatch method stop and split do the same thing. Why have both? > > > It's confusing. > > > > After taking a look at the javadocs, I don't think that they're supposed > > to do the same thing, > > they've just been coded that way. It seems that stop() is supposed to > > reset the start time, and > > split() isn't. Maybe adding a startTime = -1 to the stop() method would > > fix this? > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
