“Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say,… — Joshua Bloch Copy Share Image
The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it… — Joshua Bloch Cleaners Copy Share Image
When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community. — Joshua Bloch Community Copy Share Image
One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names. — Joshua Bloch Advantage Copy Share Image
What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to… — Joshua Bloch Code Copy Share Image
“A second advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they are not required to create a new object each time… — Joshua Bloch Copy Share Image
