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RE: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)

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• Subject: RE: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:46:45 -0400
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At 5:04 PM +0100 9/23/02, Bill de hÓra wrote:


>If you look at the 1.2 collections API, you find that methods do on
>occasion return when there are side effects on the underlying data
>structure. For example, a remove(key) call will return the removed
>value. So I think there's an argument to be had that it's reasonable for
>an append() call, which changes the underlying data structure to return
>a value. See Map.put() for an example, but be aware that returning true
>or false is also an option; see Collection.add() for an example of that.
>
Yes, but on the other hand you have methods like this one in java.util.List:

public void add(int index, Object element)

I can't say I find the collections API to be incredibly consistent
about return types. When we arguing similar points in JDOM, I noticed
that all sides of the debate could find justification for their
position somewhere in the Collections API. :-)
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