On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:44:56 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Igor Ignatyev has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
>> commit since the last revision:
>>
>> update copyright years
>
> test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/jdb/caught_exception/caught_exception002/caught_exception002a.java
> line 42:
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>> 40: }
>> 41:
>> 42: public int runIt(String[] args, PrintStream out) {
>
> Is there a style guide that says this is the preferred way to declare an
> array type? I count 3700 occurrences of
> "String args[]" in ours tests.
yes, there is, e.g. [Java Style
Guidelines](http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alundblad/styleguide/index-v6.html#toc-variable-declarations)
by Andreas
Lundblad:
> Square brackets of arrays should be at the type (String[] args) and not on
> the variable (String args[]).
although @aioobe's guidelines have been accepted (yet?) to the openjdk guide
(see openjdk/guide#14), this particular
item is agreed on and accepted almost unanimously in the industry.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/689
