- Removed named constructor Stopwatch.start() due to conflict with instance methods start().

lib/core/stopwatch.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2011, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 /**
  * A simple [Stopwatch] interface to measure elapsed time.
  */
 interface Stopwatch default StopwatchImplementation {
 
   /**
    * Creates a [Stopwatch] in stopped state with a zero elapsed count.
+   *
+   * The following example shows how to start a [Stopwatch]
+   * right after allocation.
+   *
+   *     Stopwatch stopwatch = new Stopwatch()..start();
    */
   Stopwatch();
 
   /**
-   * Creates a [Stopwatch] in started state with a zero elapsed count.
-   */
-  Stopwatch.start();

[kasperl, 2012/09/04 08:11:59]

Personally, I like naming constructor like these something along the lines of:

   Stopwatch.started()

because you're trying to create a thing in a certain state.

-
-  /**
    * Starts the [Stopwatch]. The [elapsed] count is increasing monotonically.
    * If the [Stopwatch] has been stopped, then calling start again restarts it
    * without resetting the [elapsed] count.
    * If the [Stopwatch] is currently running, then calling start does nothing.
    */
   void start();
 
   /**
    * Stops the [Stopwatch]. The [elapsed] count stops increasing.
    * If the [Stopwatch] is currently not running, then calling stop does
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    * Returns the [elapsed] counter converted to milliseconds.
    */
   int elapsedInMs();
 
   /**
    * Returns the frequency of the elapsed counter in Hz.
    */
   int frequency();
 
 }