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Re: Objects don't get initialized sometimes
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Re: Objects don't get initialized sometimes


  • Subject: Re: Objects don't get initialized sometimes
  • From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:48:17 -0800


On Jan 13, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:

One minor point... weight, which is a BigDecimal, is immutable. The 'setScale' method actually returns a new BigDecimal, so this code will not do what is intended.

This has to be one of my biggest pet peeves... it is probably the worst named method in all of Java land.

And that means it has some stiff competition! But that is a truly evil name for what that method actually is.




Ken

On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

             if(weight.scale() < 0)
                     weight.setScale(0);
             return weight;


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