[threeten-dev] [threeten-develop] JSR 310 Final Release Materials and Review

[Douglas Surber]

At 11:03 PM 1/22/2014, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> > As an aside, why 'MAX' rather than 'MAX_VALUE' as is used 
> elsewhere?
>
>The java.lang.Integer class uses MAX_VALUE to return the equivalent
>primitive value. ie. Integer.MAX_VALUE returns an int not an 
>Integer.
>With 310, there is no separate value type, so I used MAX.

java.time.Year uses MAX_VALUE and MIN_VALUE.

I think the distinction is too subtle for me. I would just type 
MAX_VALUE because that is the name of the constant that defines the 
largest element in the range, regardless of Object or primitive.

Douglas