Review request:Updated JDK-8004728 Implement core reflection API for parameter reflection (original) (raw)

Jeff Hain jeffhain at rocketmail.com
Sat Dec 22 16:40:57 UTC 2012

Rémi wrote:

getNumParameters (I prefer the name getParameterCount() BTW)

I prefer getParameterCount() too.

When something has "nb", "num", "nbr" or "number" in its name, people might get wrong about whether it refers to a count (n sheeps) or to an identifier (sheep number n).

If "count" or "id"-likes can't be used instead, and one has to stick with "number"-likes, one rule could be to use "nbr" for counts and "num" for ids: both have the same size (handy for code alignment), and they respectively match with french "nombre" and "numéro", which have the appropriate meanings.

-Jeff

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