Talk:Immutable interface

Requested move

It has been proposed in this section that Immutable interface be renamed and moved to Immutable Interface.

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User:Grundlefleck/Immutable Interface → Immutable Interface — Initial version of page, which has no meaningful content yet. Grundlefleck (talk) 00:39, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Seems more like a how to then an actual encyclopedic article. Notability is not established. Vegaswikian (talk) 07:05, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support The informit article probably establishes notability; this is definitely a legit Java thing. (The mindprod article is not helpful, though.) I disagree with the "how to" argument: examples are very helpful to explain what the pattern is, wp:NOTHOWTO allows for examples that are "intended to inform rather than to instruct." The style here is not like a textbook with "leading questions," etc. The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages, alternatives, etc. Sure, it's not a final draft - it needs more, but I don't think we need to hold up the move. ErikHaugen (talk) 22:49, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

In regards to estabilishing notability for the article, I agree the mindprob source is not very helpful (though it does mention "Immutable Interface"). Hopefully it helps my case is that the reason I wrote the article was a link to an empty article for "Immutable Interface" in the article for "Immutable Object". I also followed this article in terms of examples of the pattern, as that page does, and don't agree there is a how to aspect to the article. Any other pointers would be appreciated. Grundlefleck (talk) 11:32, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]