At 12:18 pm 14-10-2002, you wrote: > > > > I suppose what you have in mind is MutableString extends java.util.String. > >String is final. Same for all/most of the Immutable painful things.
Oops, missed the obvious... ;-p > > > 4) Pair. Is this Collections? Dunno. Anyway, pairs seem to be nice > > > sometimes. I only have one because I was porting the lisp examples > to Java > > > from the lisp book [yep, i'm that sick]. > > > > Isn't o.a.c.collections.DefaultMapEntry, fulfilling the role of Pair? > >Possibly, though it isn't semantically. Assuming there's a need for a Pair >class, using DefaultMapEntry would not fulfill it, even if the >functionality were the same. > >My vague view being that things can be syntactically the same but >semantically different. You lost me. Could you elaborate? What semantics you're referring to in Pair? -- John Yu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
