+1. Some of us have already adopted this change some time ago, but it’d be nice 
to make it official for everybody.

> On 1 Sep 2020, at 19:27, David Capwell <dcapw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently our style guide recommends to avoid using @Override and updates
> intellij's code style to exclude it by default; I would like to propose we
> change this recommendation to use it and to update intellij's style to
> include it by default.
> 
> @Override is used by javac to enforce that a method is in fact overriding
> from an abstract class or an interface and if this stops being true (such
> as a refactor happens) then a compiler error is thrown; when we default to
> excluding, it makes it harder to detect that a refactor catches all
> implementations and can lead to subtle and hard to track down bugs.
> 
> This proposal is for new code and would not be to go rewrite all code at
> once, but would recommend new code adopt this style, and to pull old code
> forward which is related to changes being made (similar to our stance on
> imports).
> 
> If people are ok with this, I will file a JIRA, update the docs, and
> update intellij's formatting.
> 
> Thanks for your time!


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