review request (L): 7032323: code changes for JSR 292 EG adjustments to API, through Public Review

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

The method comes from a request by me, and isInvalid seems a bit
double-negativy to me. If it returns false, it's not invalid, which
means not not valid, which means valid. From a language perspective,
it seems clearer to ask if it's valid, and not have a false value
negate a negative (even if that means we're asking for an unstable
property...I made the point on the MLVM list that Java beans generally
don't have isNotSomething-style properties, even though those
properties are usually non-volatile/unstable.

That said, I have no strong preference. I just want to be able to query it :)

- Charlie

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:17 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> Invalidity is stable because it is permanent.
>
> -- John  (on my iPhone)
>
> On May 26, 2011, at 12:10 PM, "Y. S. Ramakrishna" <y.s.ramakrishna at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> John, you state that validity is not a stable property.
>> Is invalidity a stable property, or not even that is.
>>
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