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From: Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:27:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: [lang] Time for RC3?
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On 3 July 2011 19:07, Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://markmail.org/message/ml7efpvqezysvs2p?q=Validate+list:org%2Eapache%2Ecommons%2Edev/
>
> Since this has gone quiet, I was going to follow through and rename the
> validate* method (which are all @since 3.0) to check*. Someone else like it
> it ;)
>
> But have two different verbs is smelly: Validate.check*(), As I mention in
> the thread, a validator validates a state, so I like best:
> Validator.validate*().
>
> But changing an existing class name seems more controversial and possibly
> more trouble than it is worth. If it were just up to me, I would just bite
> the bullet and do it for the sake of nice and pretty, but I am concerned
> about downstream users.

I have reviewed Validate, and am happy with it as currently written.
It is also widely used, so I would recommend against change.

It is an "assertion" class to replace the assert keyword in Java. The
class name and method names all read OK in that context.

Stephen

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