[156] in java-interest
Re: Premature freezing of designs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (todd@mars.clarit.com)
Tue May 30 12:43:12 1995
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 12:11:03 -0400
From: todd@mars.clarit.com
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM
Sat, 27 May 1995 13:22:47 -0700
> I feel exactly the same way. However, stability of the language and
> its interfaces is also desirable. Based on user feedback we are
> willing to make upward compatible changes but we have to be careful
> that we don't change too much.
Which is why I'm surprised nobody has commented on my suggested fix
to the bizarre toString() hack. It requires no change to any code
that uses the conversion to String. Instead, it just requires the
class definition to add a "implements Stringable" clause.
Has anyone at Sun thought about this?
My post in question is archived as
http://java.sun.com/archives/java-interest/0153.html
The latter half of that message details my design to eliminate
the automatic call of toString during concatenation, thus removing
a gross hack to the language semantics.
.T.
. . . Todd V. Jonker . . . . . Systems Designer . . .
. . . todd@clarit.com . . . . . CLARITECH Corp. . . .
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/tj00/home.html
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