Javadoc conventions in the presence of default methods

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Fri Feb 1 07:36:57 PST 2013


Thanks for the thread. I mostly agree.

On 1 February 2013 02:31, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
> We've tried this thread a few times without success, so let's try it again.

Should this be beyond Project Lambda EG?

> There are lots of things we might want to document about a method in an API.
> Historically we've framed them as either being "specification" (e.g.,
> necessary postconditions) or "implementation notes" (e.g., hints that give
> the user an idea what's going on under the hood.)  But really, there are
> four boxes (and we've been cramming them into two):
>
>   { API, implementation } x { specification, notes }

What about the difference betwen what implementors of "Java SE" need
to do vs subclass writers?

I'm guessing you intend both to be @implspec, but is that enough?

thanks
Stephen


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