Re: Name change proposal for extend-protocol

2010-06-23 Thread Travis Hoffman
Thanks for the clarification Stuart! I think I see how to think about protocols ... and not as an interface, in the java sense. I think it makes sense to me now. Love your book, btw! -Travis On Jun 21, 12:31 pm, Stuart Halloway stuart.hallo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Travis, The choice of

Re: Name change proposal for extend-protocol

2010-06-21 Thread Stuart Halloway
Hi Travis, The choice of extend follows from this reasoning: (1) Create a protocol. At this point there are no implementations. Protocol functions will fail regardless of arguments passed. (2) Extend the protocol to a String. The protocol has been *extended* to work with one type, Strings.