If only there was a way in java to say that you were overriding a method...

@QAgMire no he's overriding

@Override annotation?

@CluelessBanana he refuses to use it I've told him about it.

Ooooh greenfoot

@Conrad horrible IDE

@iamroot Did he tell you why? Is this an introductory lesson or is he just being stubborn?

@telephantasm he says "it works without it" and it's an AP course (Advanced Placement) and we are 8 months into the course. The reason for green foot is because it does not have auto complete and you learn better.

Well, he's got a point, there. @Override is not necessary if you know what you're doing. And as for avoiding autocomplete, he's also got a point... It's good to remember things. You'd ve surprised how many devs can't setup a Spring project from memory. Not the same, but still.

@telephantasm ya but he comments that he's overriding instead of just using @override

@CluelessBanana Meanwhile, user @Override is cursing us to infinity.

These yellow boxes around the methods give me flashbacks to BlueJ...

In C# you can't override without the "override" keyword in the subclass + "virtual" keyword in the base class. I've always wondered if not needing any keywords in Java is harmful for security. I suppose it is.

@iamroot I can only asdume the code works w/o that comment as well.. So

if it works w/o anno == anno shall not be used ==> if it works w/o the comment == comment shal not be used.

The guy doesn't follow his own rules :/

@netikras writing "override" in a comment when you can use the keyword is definitely bad code.

@FunkDelegate not exactly what I meant :)

@netikras oh, indeed. I see it now 8)

@netikras yup

Why don't we just ask @override for his opinion?