News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by bitops on Friday January 13, 2012 @10:55PM (#3463416)
It's a bold stance, at least. From my experience, it's idiomatic Java and just one of those things you have to do.

In practice, it's useful because it allows more easily for instrumentation later on. And you can easily throw a "synchronized" on the method if necessary.

There are no comments on this comment yet.