Re: [OT][LANG] Blog post about Validate vs. Guava Preconditions

2013-10-19 Thread Henri Yandell
Definitely jealous about the no apologies - for both Java versions and removing methods from the API without changing package name. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > In general, it is going to be very, very hard for Commons to go up against > guava. The Preconditions stuff i

Re: [OT][LANG] Blog post about Validate vs. Guava Preconditions

2013-10-18 Thread Ted Dunning
In general, it is going to be very, very hard for Commons to go up against guava. The Preconditions stuff is only the tip of the ice-berg. The advantages highlighted in the blog are typical of every aspect of guava ... well thought out (the different exception types and varargs for instance) and ab

[OT][LANG] Blog post about Validate vs. Guava Preconditions

2013-10-18 Thread Benedikt Ritter
Hi, this came in via twitter: http://piotrjagielski.com/blog/google-guava-vs-apache-commons-for-argument-validation/ What do we do, to win the next contest? :-) Benedikt -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/b