Agree :-)
Alexey Petrenko wrote:
I do not think that we really need to rewrite all the toString messages.
I suggest to update them as needed. For example if somebody will
discover that some important application depends on it...
SY, Alexey
2006/7/17, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Good news! So we can output the same message if possible. Not sure
whether we need to update all of us toStrings? Any comments?
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
> Sun, via Graham Hamilton (my favorite Sun Fellow), has stated the
> following :
>
> Sun has no objections to Harmony (or other TCK-compliant Java SE
> implementations) using the same exception messages and toString
> formats as the Sun implementation of Java SE.
>
> Further, as a personal comment, he added :
>
> Keep in mind that since these messages and formats are not part of
> the Java SE specifications, Sun may occasionally change the
messages
> and formats it uses. We tend to be cautious in doing that, so as
> not to impact applications, but it isn't ruled out.
>
> Also, it should be noted that in the APIs where Doug Lea or Josh Bloch
> had a major influence, there's a good change that the toString()
format
> *is* defined in the spec. For example, see HashMap (via AbstractMap).
> The point is that while it hasn't been done consistently throughout
the
> entire API, it's well understood by some that people depend on these
> things, and one should be careful about changing them.
>
> geir
>
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