Hi All:
Interesting and I do see your POV. IMO, it also depends on what tools
you use do to your work. I use the Eclipse Javadoc view which presents
the Javadoc comment in a formatted HTML view. I never bother to use the
source of Javadocs to understand what the comments "say" as there
usually is too much meta information, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED],
to
really make reading easy.
I guess it comes down to how you want to present each [project] to the
outside world. Since I find the Sun JRE Javadoc usually pretty poor, in
general, I do like to make my Java comments more technically detailed
and prettier.
Feel free to replace all null with null ;)
Thank you,
Gary
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 5:36 PM
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
> Subject: Re: [io] svn commit: r491668 -
>
/jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtil
s.
> java
>
> I'll be honest and say I dislike the convention of using for
> null, as as such I'm not greatly enthused by this change. I'd prefer
if
> no more files were changed.
>
> This comes down to my basic tenet that javadoc is for developers to
> read, and it is *frequently* read as source code, not as an HTML page.
> Adding the makes its *much* more difficult for someone to read
> the text. And its the text that matters.
>
> Just read the two lines below and decide which is easier to read and
> extract meaning from.
>
> In addition, since every Java programmer knows that null is a reserved
> word, I really don't see what is gained by highlighting it.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Author: ggregory
> > Date: Mon Jan 1 14:45:49 2007
> > New Revision: 491668
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=491668
> > Log:
> > Add missing Javadoc tags. Use "null" is code format
(null)
> >
>
> > - * @param file the file to open for input, not null
> > + * @param file the file to open for input, must not be
null
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