Why don't you enumarate integers FALSE, TRUE, VOID? This way one function
will return one of three integers, each with a meaningful use. Then you
can check which one was returned and act appropriately. This will save you
from the trouble of having to deal with returning types.
--- Justin Couch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski wrote:
>
> > I just encountered a problem which I think should get resolved.
> > I wanted to implement a class which implements the InputDevice
> interface
> > and inherits from Behavior.
>
> Ummm... without knowing the exact details of what you are are doing, this
> sounds like something that will get very nasty very quickly. What you
> have
> are two separate threaded entities working together within a single
> class.
> Something that is a design issue that is marked as 'Don't do@ in any
> mutlihtrreaded classes ever taught. If you need these talking togehter
> then
> you should do this via a thirdparty class using a standard
> producer-consumer
> model. This will avoid deadlocks that will occur in your application that
> putting the two threads into the one class will do.
>
> > For that I need unfortunatly a method initialize with no parameters
> > which shall return void in one case and boolean in the other.
>
> Talk to the langauge designers. That's a Java language issue and not one
> you
> will get a positive answer for. Having the same method signature but
> different
> return value types is not a capability of any strongly typed language
> that
> I am aware of.
>
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