why t is small in Hashtable class of java

[Ishant Agarwal]

why t is small in Hashtable class of java

[John Jai]

just a guess... since Map and Set are interfaces and hence HashMap and HashSet have capitals... and there is no such collection interface named Table as such..

[Campbell Ritchie]

Because somebody thought hashtable is all one word? Because somebody misunderstood the convention about subsequent words having capital letters? I think there probably is no deep mysterious reason for it.

[Matthew Brown]

And because once it's been released with that spelling (back in the original version of Java) it's too late to change it.

[Darryl Burke]

Hashtable isn't alone. There's also java.awt.Checkbox, and, arguably FilenameFilter and the 4 classes starting with Charset