And people accuse _me_ of using long method names
MJ tipped me to this amazing method name in the Matcher interface in JMock2:
void _dont_implement_Matcher___instead_extend_BaseMatcher_()
Yeah, I’m not making that up.
As the documentation goes on to explain:
This method simply acts a friendly reminder not to implement Matcher directly and instead extend BaseMatcher. It’s easy to ignore JavaDoc, but a bit harder to ignore compile errors :).
The third grader in me loves stuff like that. To be honest, I’m not entirely convinced that this is a great idea - it smells like a workaround instead of a solution. Still, it’s clever and funny and accomplishes a meaningful task, which is more than I can say for most code in this world.
Makes me want to go do this just for fun. I just need to create an interface you shouldn’t implement … Well, like I said, I’m not sure it’s such a good idea after all…
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