Re: new jalopy available

[Michael Koch]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 07:35:48AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> I've noticed two general styles of 'sorting' in Classpath sources.  Both 
> styles separate the metadata types (all fields are listed, followed by 
> member classes, constructors, methods).  Within those groupings, one style 
> sorts all methods alphabetically, and the other sorts methods according to 
> the order which they are listed in Sun's documentation (which tends to be, 
> but isn't always, by common functionality).  There is also the question of 
> whether implementation-only members (private or default access) should be 
> mixed in with exposed members (protected or public), or whether they come 
> later.
> 
> I don't have a general opinion - alphabetical sorting makes it easier to 
> find a method when just reading a file, but following Sun's sorting makes 
> it easier to compare a method to Sun's documentation of how it should 
> behave.  Either choice is fine with me, especially since emacs has 
> wrap-around searching.  But if Jalopy can make the decision easier, by 
> enforcing a sorting style, it might be worth considering.


Serializable classes have to have their fields in the same order as in
in SUNs classes because of serialization issues.


Michael