Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Qu0ll" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: difference between hashtable and hashMap ? Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 13:41:35 +1000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <53f9df0c$0$299$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <53fa2fa3$0$292$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <540d102e$0$298$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cnUgraYpUwFZ7dIYXoY6dA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V15.4.3555.308 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3555.308 Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29932 "Arne Vajhøj" wrote in message news:540d102e$0$298$14726298@news.sunsite.dk... >> I have always been fascinated by the naming of the System.out.println() >> method. >> >> What naming rules does it follow other than "copy from C/C++ and Pascal"? > > None that I can think of. > >It should have been printLine. I totally disagree - there's no "printing" of any kind happening here. My choice would be "outputLine". > But I think it is a fair guess that this method may have been > implemented way before anybody had started thinking about > coding conventions. Probably, or at least when several different sets of conventions were floating around. -- And loving it, -Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct) _________________________________________________ Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com [Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]