Joe Darcy wrote:
For JDK 7, I think it is high-time the platform included a class like
java.util.Objects to hold commonly-written utility methods. For
...
What other utility methods would have broad enough use and applicability
to go into a common java.util class?
Ah! Let's just go back to coding in C, then. I cannot see any
justification for everything and the kitchen-sink being glommed into the
Java APIs. If people want these sort of static methods, they're
pretty-much all available in other libraries (Apache Commons, etc.)
Must they /really/ be added to the morass that the Java APIs have become?
(Sorry: As a non-contributor I probably don't have the mana to make such
a comment, but this proposal really punches a lot of my buttons.)
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