Garrett Rooney wrote:
> Is there a reason that Abdera's Base interface defines clone as
> returning something other than Object?
>
Just a general preference for type-safety. It can be changed if lesser
IDE's ;-P are having a problem ;-P
- James
> public interface Base extends Cloneable {
>
> /**
> * Serializes the model component out to the specified stream
> */
> void writeTo(OutputStream out) throws IOException;
>
> /**
> * Serializes the model component out to the specified writer
> */
> void writeTo(Writer writer) throws IOException;
>
> <T extends Base>T clone();
>
> Factory getFactory();
>
> }
>
> This seems to be contrary to the way I've always seen clone defined,
> and it certainly throws IDEA for a loop, resulting in complaints about
> errors in every single class in the model package due to that clash
> between Base.clone and Object.clone.
>
> -garrett
>
