The construction which kills me is:

<if "some string".equals(str)> instead of <if str.equals("some string")>

But unfortunately the first form is better then second one :)

Alexey

2009/10/27 Jesse Wilson <jessewilson@google.com>:
> Harmony Team,
>
> Continuing along with a theme, there's another C/C++ism in our Java code
> that frustrates me. Our Java code frequently inverts conditions from their
> natural language form. From HttpURLConnectionImpl:
>
>            if (null == resHeader) {
>
>                resHeader = new Header();
>
>            }
>
>
> ...or even more surprising, from HttpURLConnection:
>
>        if (0 < chunkLength) {
>
>            throw new IllegalStateException(Msg.getString("KA003"));
>
>        }
>
>
> I find myself having to slow down to interpret what the code intends. I
> can't mentally parse "if 0 is less-than chunkLength" nearly as efficiently
> as the equivalent "if chunkLength is greater than 0" condition. From a quick
> survey of the code base, it looks like we use a mix of the two forms.
>
> If anyone thinks I should avoid flipping of these conditionals back to their
> normal form, please let me know. In my logging patch, I flipped several
> "null == foo" checks and I found it made the code easier to read.
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse
>