On Apr 20, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Doug Lea wrote: > On 04/19/11 21:07, David Holmes wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> Mike Duigou said the following on 04/20/11 08:00: >>> Hello All; >>> >>> Another collections javadoc review request. This change links the >>> "(optional)" >>> notes in on various Collection methods to text which explains why they are >>> not >>> thrown by all collections. >> >> Generally looks good. I think you should revert this additional change in >> Collection.java: >> >> ! * @throws NullPointerException if the specified array is {@code null} >> >> "null" is used all over the place without being code font, including other >> @throws NullPointerException. > > This, along with literals "true" and "false" are not code-fonted > very consistently. Someday someone should do a big consistency pass > across the whole code base.
Perhaps we can document what we believe the standards should be WRT when to use {@code} . I am sure I have clean up to do throughout the JDBC as well for consistency in this area Regards, Lance Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037 Oracle Java Engineering 1 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 lance.ander...@oracle.com