In 216, there was some talk of a desire to be able to "duck type" in a type safe way (I think it was that episode). I believe its call structural typing (I think traits were mentioned - but structural typing is what was really meant).
Scala (of course) has this as someone guessed. You can specify that an argument/parameter has a certain "shape" (ie list of method sigs) and then anything that satisfies can be passed to it (in a type safe way). Of course, this must make IDE developers lives a whole lot of fun. And by fun I mean hell. And by lives I mean no life (due to the amount of effort it would take to help support this !). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
