Hi Sebastien,
Am Donnerstag 09 Februar 2012, 11:18:43 schrieb Sébastien Brisard:
> > I am slightly reluctant to change FieldElement to an abstract class.
> > What do other people think about this ?
> > Luc
it would have been better to let Number only be an interface and not an
abstract class. Number only has byteValue() and shortValue() implemented in
terms of the abstract method intValue(). So an interface would have been
sufficient as for FieldElement.
> I see your point and was going to suggest that we only add a
> doubleValue() method to the interface FieldElement. But that does not
> work with Complex!
> So I'll have to think of something else...
one work arround could be to setup an interface, say NumberConversions, which
just contains the methods of Number. Then one could use it together with
FieldElement:
class X implements FieldElement, NumberConversions /*extends Number*/ {...}
and then to require the same for using classes
<C extends FieldElement & NumberConversions>
double computeSomeThing(C parm) { ...; return parm.doubleValue(); }
One could also reduce NumberConversions to just DoubleConversion with only
the doubleValue() method.
For Complex one can then decide just not to implement DoubleConversion or to
implement doubleValue() with some warning in the API documentation and with
some different meaning (e.g. the double value of the absolute value).
Heinz
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