[jdom-interest] Redundance in getAttributeType() and setAttributeType()

Bradley S. Huffman hip at a.cs.okstate.edu
Sun May 4 12:07:22 PDT 2003


Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> Pusing another issue from last year that was never decided back into the queu
> e:
> 
> The following two methods in Attribute strike me as redundantly named:
> 
> 
> public int *getAttributeType*()
> public Attribute *setAttributeType*(int type)

Isn't this along the lines of changing setName() to setLocalName(), or the
"Children" *Children() methods to what it really means "Elements", it would
be **really, really** nice to do but it's to late in the game. However since
*AttributeType is fairly new I guess we could get away with it. 

Brad



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