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Re: Overloading & New

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Fri Aug 18 00:36:56 1995

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:34:14 -0700
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Terence John Parr's message of Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:31:44 -0700 <199508171931.MAA08383@lonewolf.parr-research.com>


> As long as we don't have to use iterators...uh oh...now I've done
> it...major jihad started there.  All C++ folks may now commence to
> saying how great they are.  In C++ they are essential, in
> Java/Smalltalk/Objective-C they are not considered cause you don't
> need 'em.

Unless I am misunderstanding you, we do have 'em.  They're called "Enumerations"
(see http://java.sun.com/1.0alpha3/doc/api/java.util.Enumeration.html).

And we need 'em, since we cannot send blocks of code about a la Smalltalk.
(Mohammed, in this case, must come to the mountain.)

Or I am complete offbase here...

M.

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