söndagen den 8 juni 2008 18.14.00 skrev Florian Köberle:
> Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> >> + super(String.format("No repository found for file '%s'",
> >> + fileWeSearchedRepositoryFor));
> >
> > This is any odd patterrn. Usually we use + to concatenate strimgs.
>
> Hi Robin,
>
> I know two good reason why you should use formating functions over
> string concatenation via the plus sign:
>
> 1.) formated strings are better translatable. e.g.
> "The string '%s' is more then %s characters long"
[..]
> 2.) Whitespace mistakes are easier to see. e.g.
> (i + "coins") and ("%scoins", i)
>
> Sure you can make the mistake to provide not enough arguments, but
> that's not so worse:
> a.) Some IDEs, like Intellij IDEA warn you if you call a formating
> function with to few arguments.
I'm so ashamed... I used to like printf in C, but I've hardly used it in Java. I
probably will use it more now. Seems Eclipse doesn't check (even GCC
does that).
-- robin
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