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While I'm off waiting for a new notebook, you can have a look at Blaine's post. He's commenting on this piece of nonsense (pdf) from those brightfolks atSun:

A note on naming conventions. We recommend that you use pithy (single character if possible) yet evocative names for formal type parameters

Like he said, huh??? They are actually recommending this style?

public interface List { 

void add(E x);

Iterator iterator();

}

public interface Iterator { 

E next();

boolean hasNext();

}

Single character variable names, officially recommended by Sun. I guess they got into the wayback machine with Professor Peabody - because it's about 1978 where they are...