I do not think that we really need to rewrite all the toString messages. I suggest to update them as needed. For example if somebody will discover that some important application depends on it...
SY, Alexey 2006/7/17, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Good news! So we can output the same message if possible. Not sure whether we need to update all of us toStrings? Any comments? Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Sun, via Graham Hamilton (my favorite Sun Fellow), has stated the > following : > > Sun has no objections to Harmony (or other TCK-compliant Java SE > implementations) using the same exception messages and toString > formats as the Sun implementation of Java SE. > > Further, as a personal comment, he added : > > Keep in mind that since these messages and formats are not part of > the Java SE specifications, Sun may occasionally change the messages > and formats it uses. We tend to be cautious in doing that, so as > not to impact applications, but it isn't ruled out. > > Also, it should be noted that in the APIs where Doug Lea or Josh Bloch > had a major influence, there's a good change that the toString() format > *is* defined in the spec. For example, see HashMap (via AbstractMap). > The point is that while it hasn't been done consistently throughout the > entire API, it's well understood by some that people depend on these > things, and one should be careful about changing them. > > geir > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Richard Liang China Software Development Lab, IBM --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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