Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: hash map / collection choice Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:04:20 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 02:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6b9e92482af47766954d85fb77d372f5"; logging-data="19046"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/jGtPobbYqPzCbZ7mM47hyLwgC8wt+NmY=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:aW982b+aBNHfraf9CpD3CrDcJdU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28291 On 04/27/2014 09:58 PM, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote: > Eric Sosman wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, the links on that promisingly-named page >> are all 404's or inoperative. > > Ack. My bad, apologies. I should have checked that the link > actually worked. > >> Bug 8039151 was filed a little >> over three weeks ago but hasn't yet been resolved; I guess an >> Oracle committee is preparing to start discussions on a suitable >> framework and process for repairing links. If so, the links may >> get repaired in time for Java 9 or 10. ;-) >> > > *wince* It's pretty bad that a document this important has gone awol. > > There seems to be an old copy of it here: > http://yohanan.org/steve/projects/java-code-conventions/ > > The guide _is_ a little out-of-date by now, mainly in that it doesn't > cover the later language features such as generics or varargs, but > it's still worth a read through. > Not much better here. :-o Committee having cold beer.