On 1 February 2018 at 15:30, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > For example, (picking a made up example) this reads really well to me: > Pair.of(foo, bar) because that what you'd use in spoken English. > > OTOH, this does not read well to me: Fraction.of(num, denum); this would be > better: Fraction.from(num, denum)
In JSR-310, of() is used when there is little work performed in the factory, and relatively low chance of an error. from() is used when performing a complex conversion, that has a higher chance of failure, Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org