Hello.
On 8/11/2011 1:56 PM, Rémi Forax wrote:
On 08/11/2011 10:19 PM, assembling signals wrote:
Hello, community!
Enum does implement Comparable, while EnumSet does NOT implement
SortedSet and EnumMap doesn NOT implement SortedMap.
Should I file a bug report (RFE), would there be a chance to see this
being implemented in JDK8?
I've asked the same question with NavigableSet/Map during the JDK6
timeframe
so you should find the answer by Doug Lea on the concurrency-interest
list
[email protected]
Furthermore, you can't retrofit EnumSet to implement SortedSet
(an interface that already exists)
because since 1.5, a lot of code was written and some may rely on
the fact that EnumSet doesn't implement SortedSet.
Actually, that is not the sort of compatibility contract we usually
worry about enforcing over time. For example, in JDK 7 I retrofitted
the java.io.Closeable interface to several long-standing classes with
close methods that were not retrofitted before.
Cheers,
-Joe
