> Patrick, Alan is right in the sense that we have to estimate usefulness of > each method wisely. Unfortunately your codebase (or anyone else’s) might have > some very specific biases and thus might not be a good sample to base > conclusions upon.
Aggreed. > We need some more data to justify this proposal. The good start could be the > jdk itself -- to see if those copy-with-my-buffer methods could be useful > here. > > -Pavel I have to say, that I normally use my IDE to search for references. What technique do you use to search for such patterns? -Patrick
