How about renaming it to DiffBuilder and the interface would be Diffable? The term "diff" is well understood and commonplace. The term "difference" sounds too "mathy" and would be confusing. I liked Matt's idea of having a Difference object (again renamed to Diff).
Sent from my iPad On Sep 23, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Duncan Jones <dun...@wortharead.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've begun work on implementing a DifferenceBuilder class as requested > in LANG-637. I've attached some partial implementations of a builder > and associated interface and test to the JIRA issue > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-637). Before I spend too > much time adding upteem method overrides, constructors and tests, I'd > really appreciate the thoughts of the community on what I've attached. > > Assuming this functionality even has a place in commons-lang, are > there any glaring design flaws in what I've attached that would make > further work on the particular implementations foolhardy? > > Thanks, > > Duncan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org