From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f79bb,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf79bb,public From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel) Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java Date: 1996/11/03 Message-ID: <55h30b$gjk@gaia.ns.utk.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194088736 references: <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net> <55562c$nkd@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <55ffdb$cki@bagan.srce.hr> <55fhfu$8p0@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> followup-to: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.java.advocacy organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory reply-to: %%spam repellent: remove this prefix%%kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1996-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Fergus Henderson (fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU) wrote: : Disadvantage number two: you can't use the new interface on the : original types. This is *really* bad news. It basically means is that : you can't use this method when interfacing with existing code that uses : A and B rather than MyA and MyB. This issue comes about when your library framework which you can't change creates and returns new objects of type A and B. : -- : Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit : WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" : PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. -- Matthew B. Kennel/mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu/I do not speak for ORNL, DOE or UT Oak Ridge National Laboratory/University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA/ I would not, could not SAVE ON PHONE, |================================== I would not, could not BUY YOUR LOAN, |The US Government does not like I would not, could not MAKE MONEY FAST, |spam either. It is ILLEGAL! I would not, could not SEND NO CA$H, |USC Title 47, section 227 I would not, could not SEE YOUR SITE, |p (b)(1)(C) www.law.cornell.edu/ I would not, could not EAT VEG-I-MITE, | /uscode/47/227.html I do *not* *like* GREEN CARDS AND SPAM! |================================== M A D - I - A M!