The implementation of default methods (original) (raw)

Doug Lea dl at cs.oswego.edu
Fri Dec 14 08:45:21 PST 2012

On 12/14/12 11:30, Brian Goetz wrote:

1. Document "Implementation note: The default implementation currently..."

As always, the fewer of these the better. In j.u/j.u.c, these are used mostly for resource limitations (like max threads in FJP) that might someday be lifted.

2. Document "The default implementation behaves as if..." (Or whatever Doug's proposed wording is.)

In j.u.c, we always say "is behaviorally equivalent to" but I dropped the "behaviorally" in Map candidate because someone once told me it was overly pedantic :-)

3. Document "The default implementation MUST"

Isn't this just the normal spec part, that should precede the default implementation part?

-Doug

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