It seems to depend on whether we see the word "array" as a proper noun.
Could you please elaborate what you meant by that.
In my understanding, class names rather represent common nouns, and you can say, specific instances of the class represent proper nouns:
Person john = new Person();
Or, am I missing something here?
Talking about String.subSequence, if I am right, it was so named because there exists a word called "subsequence" in English, which has no direct bearing with "sub + sequence", thus the emphasis:
"sub-sequence". Another example would be re-store (= store again.)
Ash
-----Original Message----- From: __matthewHawthorne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 20:34 To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [lang] StringUtils.subarray v/s subArray
It seems to depend on whether we see the word "array" as a proper noun.
java.lang.String has both substring and subSequence. There seem to be inconsistencies everywhere.
I vote for subArray, since I would define a classname as being a proper noun.
Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> I changed this based on subList() in the collections API. substring() is an
> alternative precedent, so I am open to opinions.
> > Stephen
> > ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ash .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>Thanks for integrating the subarray implementation patch.
>>
>>However, I am curious to know why Stephen chose to name the method
>>"subArray", in place of
>>"subarray".
>>In the English language, the prefix "sub" in this sense is joined to the
>>word with the resultant word being a single "token": subunit, subclass,
>>suburbs, subway... substring, subarray,
>>whereby, as per standard Java conventions, the name ought to be "subarray"
>>rather than "subArray".
>>Even names in Standard API reflect this: substring, etc.
>>
>>thanks,
>>Ashwin
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