code review request for 7011095, revert diamond changes in method args (original) (raw)

Stuart Marks stuart.marks at oracle.com
Tue Jan 11 00:42:51 UTC 2011


Hi all,

This is a followup to the diamond conversion I did for 6880112, reviewed here a few weeks ago [1].

That conversion applied the diamond operator in variable initializers, assignment statements, return statements, and in method arguments. For stylistic reasons we've decided that using diamond in method args isn't necessarily a good idea. The type inference for method args can be quite subtle, and since the diamond operator is supposed to improve brevity and clarity, using it in method args seems counterproductive.

Given this, we've decided to pull out the usage of diamond from the places that it was added by 6880112. Here's the webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/7011095/webrev.0/

Thanks!

s'marks

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2010-December/005466.html



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