From 410608a10e0d19e9b4188a7319ae79dfbcca4e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Copeland <tomcopeland@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:14:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] added example

git-svn-id: https://pmd.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pmd/trunk@547 51baf565-9d33-0410-a72c-fc3788e3496d
---
 pmd/rulesets/newrules.xml | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pmd/rulesets/newrules.xml b/pmd/rulesets/newrules.xml
index af53875296..4ad4f4625b 100644
--- a/pmd/rulesets/newrules.xml
+++ b/pmd/rulesets/newrules.xml
@@ -6,14 +6,18 @@ These are new ones for the next release
   </description>
 
   <rule name="UnusedFormalParameter"
-        message="Avoid unused formal paramters such as ''{0}''"
+        message="Avoid unused formal parameters such as ''{0}''"
         class="net.sourceforge.pmd.rules.UnusedFormalParameterRule">
     <description>
-Complete this description
+Avoid passing parameters to methods and then not using those parameters.
     </description>
 
     <example>
 <![CDATA[
+public class Foo {
+ private void bar(String howdy) {
+  // howdy is not used
+ }
 ]]>
     </example>
   </rule>