Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: "Double.toString" Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:53:00 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35911 On 11/20/2016 4:43 PM, Lothar Kimmeringer wrote: > Stefan Ram wrote: >> How could I have missed this method all those years? >> Or did I know it once and my memory failed on me? > > It was added quite some time ago and it's one good example > of things being added to the JDK that got missed. Another > example is the Arrays and Collection util classes that took > a while to get recognized by me. Is was actually in 1.02 (the first stable release): http://web.mit.edu/java_v1.0.2/www/javadoc/java.lang.Double.html#toString(double) Arne