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Re: Uppercase methods names

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On 1/30/2017 8:36 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>   This is not mentioned in JLS 6.1, but are
>
> public static int java.awt.Color.HSBtoRGB(float,float,float)
> public static double java.lang.Math.IEEEremainder(double,double)
> public static float[] java.awt.Color.RGBtoHSB(int,int,int,float[])
> public static long java.util.Date.UTC(int,int,int,int,int,int)
> public static native double java.lang.StrictMath.IEEEremainder(double,double)
>
>   enough prior art to derive a rule:
>
>       »When a method name starts with an acronym that usually
>       is written in all-upperase, it is still written in
>       all-uppercase when it appears at the start of a method
>       name«?

     Why bother deriving a RULE!!! from the names of a mere six
methods, one of them deprecated?

     (I suppose there's precedent for RULE!!!-making on tiny
samples.  Long years ago I was required to memorize a RULE!!!
concerning Latin semi-deponent verbs whose direct objects took
the ablative rather than the accusative case; there were five
count them five such verbs.  I still feel that making a RULE!!!
in such cases is sub-optimal; call 'em "irregular" and move on.)

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