Am 30.01.2012 07:52, schrieb Rémi Forax:
WTF !
while it's maybe a binary compatible change, I haven't take a look to all
modified classes to be sure
it's not a source compatible change.
People had created class that inherits from ArrayList and override clone,
while it's not a good practice, there is a *lot* of code from pre-1.5 days that
does exactly that,
this change will simply break all those codes.
I guess, as not source compatible for, you think about case A, but not case B? :
class SubClass extends JdkApiClass {
@Override // case A
Object clone() {...}
@Override // case B
SubClass clone() {...}
}
-Ulf
