Hello Jens, welcome to the ML. It is good style to prefix emails with the short name of the component they are about. So since you have a question about commons lang you should put the [LANG] prefix in the subject line (I've done it in this response).
Now to your question: TBH I don't really know :-) Can anybody else help? Hen? Matt? If your looking for material about binary compatibility, you should read http://wiki.eclipse.org/Evolving_Java-based_APIs It provides a good overview over the topic. Regards, Benedikt 2013/10/15 Jens Dietrich <j.b.dietr...@massey.ac.nz> > Hi, > > I have a quick question regarding the use of constants in Apache Commons - > in some classes/interfaces like org.apache.commons.lang.math.NumberUtils > some constants are defined using wrapper types and not primitive types. > What are the reasons for this? > > The background of my question is that I am doing some research on binary > vs source compatibility in Java. One such issue is constant inlining, and I > try to find out whether engineers consciously use wrapper types to prevent > inlining. > > Cheers, Jens > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
