XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT mercury.ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> I note that I have trouble remembering 
> whether it's insertChild(0, node) or insertChild(node, 0). Is there 
> any reason for preferring one order to the other? Would it be any 
> more natural to put the index after the node rather than before? Or 
> is this just a pick one question where I should stick with what we've 
> got?

I prefer insertChild(node, 0), which I read as "insert child node at zero";
in Smalltalk notation, "insertChild: node at: 0".  In general, the direct
object of the verb which names the method should be the first argument.

Fortunately, since the arguments have different types, the compiler will
catch misordered arguments.

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