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“immutable”

Dec
14
2009

When you can’t avoid an out parameter

We all know its a good idea to avoid using out variables in Java. In almost every case the code can be split up to avoid the situation. Its bad semantics because when reading the code its not obvious which object passed, if any will get mutated.  So the reader is forced to [...]

Oct
27
2009

Refactoring to Google Collections – ImmutableList for simple code

Google collections are excellent in multi-threaded applications, so I thought I would re-factor some code to use them.