Suggestion: Add the method isEmpty in the classes StringBuilder and StringBuffer

Hildeberto Mendonça me at hildeberto.com
Mon Feb 11 18:32:58 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com>wrote:

> It should be isEmpty() -- empty() is usually for returning empty versions
> of the class.  isEmpty is also consistent with String.
>

Yes. Also, being consistent with String helps to reduce effort during
refactoring.

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