Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 44331 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2009 07:36:53 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 30 Nov 2009 07:36:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 84179 invoked by uid 500); 30 Nov 2009 07:36:52 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-commons-dev-archive@commons.apache.org Received: (qmail 84035 invoked by uid 500); 30 Nov 2009 07:36:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@commons.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: "Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list dev@commons.apache.org Received: (qmail 84025 invoked by uid 99); 30 Nov 2009 07:36:52 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:36:52 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of paulus.benedictus@gmail.com designates 209.85.210.186 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.210.186] (HELO mail-yx0-f186.google.com) (209.85.210.186) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:36:43 +0000 Received: by yxe16 with SMTP id 16so3094485yxe.27 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:36:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LHeo33byqqi+R4GQKoxJc9aRPGAC6IthIoTpZSEbwmc=; b=HOlCPAsa57AYiX8IECIfC8O8L4es3OL8qXYza4Giw9QRII264qA6N6zHjw3/gSK4WA /EKAedjnVlYmyeaY9rZ4OVqMg9ydI2uBv4Zat2VxxNmcF0F3H4Ihd2ah0hGNoZSYrX6h jSdMkbS/R2hqXgojjRRcCR3LMHxh8iK+l3U8M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=fc6hHHELw0hzU5Exv+EZAJT+mgcjpoiJUxw4+ReJ4rKYgEvQ4OHumRe02Wiu+efqcD 8KYPfA1puEyq9AVIb+DDtnAVST3HOXtbWgmOmi7rWhCgcvulqi4vDmgaVLbDEDM5c307 748KNQhcTlEiohi9+hFTKliWM+o783cdEnGnY= Received: by 10.150.246.3 with SMTP id t3mr6571177ybh.256.1259566577435; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ([75.81.14.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm1533860ywg.4.2009.11.29.23.36.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:36:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paul Benedict Message-ID: <4B1375FA.2070103@apache.org> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:36:26 -0600 From: Paul Benedict Reply-To: pbenedict@apache.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091121 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [lang 3] Validate: rename methods References: <4B12ACD3.9060702@apache.org> <4B12B001.3070502@apache.org> <4B12E6FE.2080007@btopenworld.com> <31cc37360911291931m2b8a4ceeg9ae68c5f3eeab687@mail.gmail.com> <31cc37360911292331r40cbe7cav1a91bac6aa01fe7c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <31cc37360911292331r40cbe7cav1a91bac6aa01fe7c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org It is a verb, of course, but methods should be verbs. I am only appealing to the classical naming convention of methods. They do the work; classes don't. You can't ask a class to validate; you can ask its methods to validate. Paul On 11/30/2009 1:31 AM, Henri Yandell wrote: > Validate isn't a verb? > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Paul Benedict wrote: >> I am not catering to static imports. I am catering towards a >> consistent naming convention. If you compare our names to what exists >> in Spring's and Google's API, you will find that ours are not >> verb-ified. The whole static import discussion is just an additional >> benefit. >> >> What I would like to focus on is having a common verb in front of all. >> Saying "notNull" is a statement, not an action. Is that really what we >> want to keep? >> >> Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@commons.apache.org