Yes, I "stole" that name from .NET but it's a great, short and very accurate name. .NET goes a bit further by having a (static) GC class to house this method (amongst other GC related ones), but for java Reference (or whatever else) is good enough.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > Bikeshedding, > > On 11/24/2015 01:07 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote: > > How about keepAlive? Reference.keepAlive(Object) reads better, IMO. > > It does indeed. Imperative names for methods almost always read better, > IMO. And although we probably don't don't much care about C#, it too > uses the name KeepAlive() for this. > > Andrew. > >
