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  Java 8 API appearance Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-03-05 23:38 +1100
    Re: Java 8 API appearance Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-03-06 13:14 +1100

#6902 — Java 8 API appearance

I note that the documentation for the JAVA API has had its format 
changed again - I think this is the fourth version.

As learning curves go, getting to grips with a new format is not such a 
big deal, but it still slows things down a bit for a while, and, as 
usual, I wonder why the change was thought necessary.

They've stuck with something introduced in version 3, which is that in a 
table of methods, the return type is on the left, and you have to find 
the function name in the middle. I felt the version 2 format made more 
sense. First the function name, then what you have to pass it, and 
finally what you get back.

But no doubt I'm just a Luddite.

Sylvia.

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#6907

On 6/03/2015 12:52 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.java.programmer
>
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> writes:
>>        First the function name, then what you have to pass it, and
>> finally what you get back.
>
>    In Java, since its first version, IIRC, one always wrote
>
> int example( double example );

Yes. I'm not talking about the syntax, but about the documentation.

Sylvia.

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