Description Nick Edgar 2002-01-10 16:02:49 EST

Build 20020109

I was writing a junit test which did the following:
	float x = p.getX();
	assertEquals("0,0", 0f, x);

It gave me a compiler error saying that:
The method assertEquals(byte, byte) ... is not applicable for the arguments 
(java.lang.String, float, float).

I was trying to target the assertEquals methods for floats, which does exist.
However, it has an extra argument, float delta.
That is, the signature is assertEquals(String, float, float, float).

It took me a while to figure this out.  At first I thought it was a compiler 
bug in resolution of overloaded methods, since I thought there was an 
assertEquals(String, float, float).

It would be nice if the error message either mentioned the closest match, or 
had a more generic message which did not refer to any particular concrete 
method.  For example,
There is no method named assertEquals which is applicable for the arguments 
(java.lang.String, float, float).