Not being able (and willing) to look at code at this time of the day,
for a final reply you'll have to wait until tomorrow. Having said that,
my current working assumption is we try to comply with the JavaBeans
specifiction when it comes down to method signatures for setter/getter
methods.
Werner
Andy Buckley wrote:
> On a slightly different issue...
>
> Can you confirm if the pattern matching for set- and add-type methods requires
> that the return type is void? I'd very much like to be able to define them as
> "return this", so that I can do
>
> Paper p = new Paper();
> p.addDataset(d1).addDataset(d2).setTitle("Hello").etc.etc...
>
> If the return type *is* being checked, I'd like to request that it isn't, or
> is
> at least less restrictive, for this reason!
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list please visit:
http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
