Comments on: Generic Comparators in Java http://www.breakitdownblog.com/generic-comparators-in-java/ A technical, gaming and current-events news site Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:00:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anu http://www.breakitdownblog.com/generic-comparators-in-java/comment-page-1/#comment-14016 Anu Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:15:25 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2006/09/21/generic-comparators-in-java/#comment-14016 Thank you very much. This was helpful. Thank you very much. This was helpful.

]]> By: Riyad Kalla http://www.breakitdownblog.com/generic-comparators-in-java/comment-page-1/#comment-8364 Riyad Kalla Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:14:14 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2006/09/21/generic-comparators-in-java/#comment-8364 HC, I'm glad it helped. I always run into issues when I get into Generics and have to go digging/Googling for answers. I'm happy to hear this helped you out. HC, I’m glad it helped. I always run into issues when I get into Generics and have to go digging/Googling for answers.

I’m happy to hear this helped you out.

]]> By: HC http://www.breakitdownblog.com/generic-comparators-in-java/comment-page-1/#comment-8361 HC Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:38:11 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2006/09/21/generic-comparators-in-java/#comment-8361 fine information, was very helpful for me, indeed fine information, was very helpful for me, indeed

]]> By: Riyad Kalla http://www.breakitdownblog.com/generic-comparators-in-java/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Riyad Kalla Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:21:23 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2006/09/21/generic-comparators-in-java/#comment-164 This was a complaint a lot of people had and one reason I didn't get into generics until about 3 months ago. After using them they make more sense and in about 4 occasions I have hit compile-time errors that I hadn't noticed that would have been sucky runtime errors to track down. I think overall it's a good thing. One of the bigger points of them was just to get more validation into the compiler-phase of the application. There is a ton of attention being paid to improving the overall stability of the language moving forward with stuff like this. I can't say I love autoboxing, it makes things sloppy-easy in my experience, but for the few times where you do get to pass an int as an object or treat and Integer like an int, it's pretty slick. I just feel wrong doing it, so I actively have Integer.valueOf(i) calls around my code when I need to convert. I'm sure I'll drop that habit at some point. This was a complaint a lot of people had and one reason I didn’t get into generics until about 3 months ago. After using them they make more sense and in about 4 occasions I have hit compile-time errors that I hadn’t noticed that would have been sucky runtime errors to track down. I think overall it’s a good thing. One of the bigger points of them was just to get more validation into the compiler-phase of the application. There is a ton of attention being paid to improving the overall stability of the language moving forward with stuff like this.

I can’t say I love autoboxing, it makes things sloppy-easy in my experience, but for the few times where you do get to pass an int as an object or treat and Integer like an int, it’s pretty slick. I just feel wrong doing it, so I actively have Integer.valueOf(i) calls around my code when I need to convert.

I’m sure I’ll drop that habit at some point.

]]> By: Ben http://www.breakitdownblog.com/generic-comparators-in-java/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Ben Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:28:13 +0000 http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2006/09/21/generic-comparators-in-java/#comment-163 Is it just me or does the whole syntax seem weird? Until 1.5 was there anything like this anywhere else in the language? Is it just me or does the whole syntax seem weird? Until 1.5 was there anything like this anywhere else in the language?

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