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dion

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Dion Almaer is the Editor-in-Chief for TheServerSide.com, and is an enterprise Java evangelist

Generic type parameter naming A.K.A Line Noise :)

Posted: Jul 17, 2004 4:04 AM

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Eric Gunnerson has said why the C# team migrated to single character names for generic type parameters. E.g. From: class Dictionary<Key, Value> to: class Dictionary<K, V> The confusion comes in when you see: public void Process(Key k) Why didn't Microsoft using some form of Hungarian and have gtKey (generic type Key)? :) There is the same issue with Java generics. You look at the JavaDoc for Java 5 and you see lovely things like: Set<Map.Entry<K,V>> Yum :) Is this mess really worth it for generics? I would much rather play with this dense noise: for (order in customers.findAll { it.location.code == "CO" }.orders) { println("order ${order.id} has value ${order.value}") } Giddy up!

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