On 14/03/2014 10:22 PM, Doug Lea wrote:
On 03/14/2014 08:07 AM, David Holmes wrote:
So what you are saying is that protected overrides of protected
methods are not
required to honor the specification of the super method?
Not always, but ...
That certainly gives some implementation flexibility, but I don't
think I've
ever seen it expressed as a rule.
... this is the convention for @implSpecs for default methods on
interfaces.
Which probably would have been used here instead of AbstractList had
they existed back in JDK1.2.
However @throws is not part of implSpecs. AbstractList should have
defined the potential exceptions and subclass implementations would have
to conform.
David
-Doug
