On 8 March 2012 08:04, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > Le 08/03/2012 02:21, Konstantin Kolinko a écrit : > > >> Google shows ~1500 hits for "toStrng". > > > More precisely 377 hits for "toStrng" + Java, versus 21,000,000 hits for > toString, which is about 0.001%. > > So @Override is useless 99.999% of the time in this case.
That's not a valid conclusion, because it does not take into account whether @Override is present or not. Besides, toString is extremely well known as a method name. == The point is, @Override is useful as documentation of the intention of the coder. You may not find it useful for your own code - so don't use it in your own code. However, ASF code is developed by many different people over a long period of time, and having this annotation helps communicate the intention of the coder to subsequent maintainers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
