Thank you for the feedback David. On Feb 18 2013, at 21:29 , David Holmes wrote:
> package-info.java > > I've flagged this elsewhere but you may not have seen it: > > + * Predicate<String> > > If we use < then we should also use >. It's not required to use > in HTML 4.01 transitional or HTML 5.0. Doclint was complaining about this but it has (or soon will be) amended. It could still be a style requirement to use > I will push this changeset with ">" but assume that if the decision is to require ">" then doclint will remind us thoroughly and repeatedly to correct this before Java 8 is released. > Aside: it would be much easier to maintain consistent style if we used a > "template" to define the main outline of each family of interfaces and > generated the specializations from that (similar to how we generate the > various bytebuffer classes). Like Chris I have mixed feelings about templating for similar reasons. Our current generated sources work very poorly with IDEs. If we can improve the user experience with generated sources I would be very much willing to consider it. Thanks again! Mike
