Original comment posted by dharkness on 2013-03-18 at 12:50 AM

There are two constructors in the master branch: one that takes a ticker and the other that specifies the system ticker. Both of these create an unstarted Stopwatch. Are you proposing to remove the ability to specify our own ticker?

Original comment posted by kurt.kluever on 2013-03-18 at 04:16 AM

@dharkness: Nope...we'd remove the 2 constructors and add 4 static factory methods:

public static Stopwatch newStartedInstance() { ... }
public static Stopwatch newStartedInstance(Ticker ticker) { ... }
public static Stopwatch newUnstartedInstance() { ... }
public static Stopwatch newUnstartedInstance(Ticker ticker) { ... }

Original comment posted by kevinb@google.com on 2013-03-18 at 02:15 PM

We're looking for feedback from users on whether this change is seen as worth the hassle of fixing all your existing "new Stopwatch()" calls.

Original comment posted by joe.j.kearney on 2013-03-19 at 08:43 AM

I for one think that it's worth fixing. In my codebase it'll be largely a find-replace for the started ones. Definitely a clarity win.

Original comment posted by stephan202 on 2013-03-19 at 09:03 AM

Agreed with #4.

Original comment posted by kak@google.com on 2013-03-19 at 08:05 PM

Great, thanks for the feedback Stephen + Joe. I've just put up a G+ post about this topic, so we'll see what everyone thinks:
https://plus.google.com/118010414872916542489/posts/8XeVCd7iKxo

Original comment posted by kak@google.com on 2013-03-20 at 09:28 PM

I think I'll push for Stopwatch.createStarted() and createUnstarted().

Fun fact from that G+ thread: 78% of Stopwatches are started immediately after construction!

Status: Started

Original comment posted by kak@google.com on 2013-03-26 at 06:35 PM

OK, we've decided to add Stopwatch.createStarted() and createUnstarted() and then ultimately deprecate and remove the Stopwatch constructors! Thanks everyone for the valuable discussions :-)

Status: Fixed
Labels: Milestone-Release15

Original comment posted by dharkness on 2014-01-20 at 11:11 PM

I'm late to the party but +1 nonetheless!