On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Le 26/11/2013 19:18, Gary Gregory a écrit : > > > I disagree, final everywhere is a good thing, please see > > http://garygregory.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/the-final-kiss-in-java/ > > Well, I guess we agree to disagree then :) Final everywhere is absurd > imho, there are many cases where it's useless and increase the verbosity > of the code, for example: > > public ImageReadException(final String message) { > super(message); > } > Au contraire, final says that the reference to message is guaranteed to be unchanged. It is obvious in a one liner such as this one, but consistency is kind IMO. When I see method after method that declare params as final (read only), I can turn on my radar when I see one declared as read-write (by not using final). Gary > > Emmanuel Bourg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition<http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory