On 6/21/06, Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a reason that Abdera's Base interface defines clone as
returning something other than Object?
This is not good. Unless something changed in the JLS and I missed it, it is
not legal to have two methods on a class or interface whose signatures
differ only in the return type.
--
Martin Cooper
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
