On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:56:33PM -0500, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
Embedding type names in arguments and method names.
supposedly being "Java's fatal mistake". I'm not sure that Java developers commonly make a practice of doing that. It would be strange, since Java requires type declarations. I'm not really a Java guy, but I think this would be more like what you would expect: public class Example{ public void processCoords(Point t1, Point t2, boolean fast){ ... } where Point is equivalent to a (int, int) tuple. You seem to be describing a verbose version of "Apps Hungarian Notation". I don't think Hungarian Notation was ever standard practice in the Java world, although I did find at least one tutorial (from 1999) recommending it: http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/615891/Applying-Hungarian-Nota... In any case, I *think* that your intended lesson is that type annotations can increase the quality of code even without a type checker, as they act as type documentation to the reader. I agree with that. -- Steve