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William:

The list of reserved methods is from Flannigan.  Maybe I wasn't as clear as I
could have been.  I wanted JBuilder to flag those methods so that you didn't use
them in instances when you weren't actually over-riding them.  It would have just
been a visual cue.  Might annoy those already familiar with Java but would stop a
really hard to debug "weird" problem if someone used those names but didn't know
that they were special.

-Rich

William Harris wrote:

> In article <3443F165.45BAFB30@corp.borland.com>, rwilkman@corp.borland.com
> says...
> >I also pushed to get:
> >
> >clone, getClass, notifyAll, equals, hashCode, toString, finalize, notify
> >and wait to that list.  These are reserved method names in java -- ones
> >you should never use in your own stuff.  No go on that one.
>
> I respectfully disagree with you and for the most part agree with the end
> result.  toString in particular has to be overridden in your classes if you
> want a sensible result; the default Object toString() isn't going to give you
> anything useful.
>
> Flanagan (in Java in a Nutshell) goes further and suggests that it might be
> wise to override equals() in order to call the equals() methods of the objects
> referred to within the original object; and the same with the clone() method,
> for Cloneable objects.  I can't say I've done either, but I see his point.
>
> William Harris                          william@carsinfo.com