getting my fork in sync.

I'm of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" persuasion, I'm sorry if that makes me seem uncooperative.  

This code works in-game, I have tested it. You are proposing I change it to something I have no experience of using, that is mostly undocumented, with no working examples to study, and for what benefit? 

If this is another one of our regular discussions over 'style', I'm mostly of the opinion that function > style (unless there are performance issues), and although I have gone along with you so far over style, my time atm will be mostly taken up by getting the 1.8 version of spigot up and running.