[2048] in java-interest
Re: method/fn ptrs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Smiljan Grmek - KSI ZGB)
Fri Sep 22 11:55:19 1995
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 14:34:48 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Smiljan Grmek - KSI ZGB <sgrmek@public.srce.hr>
To: Jonathan Payne <jpayne@starwave.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <9509201617.AA26212@escher.Eng.Sun.COM>
On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, Jonathan Payne wrote:
> >
> > Ok... how does one do the equivalent of fn-ptrs in Java?
>
> There's no way to do it, and I consider that one of the biggest
> short-comings of Java.
Well, from the postings on this and other list one gets an impression
that people appreciate the efforts of the Java team to make the language
clear, as similar to C++ as possible and useful in general. I would like
to propose for consideration that they spent much more time and effort to
make Java as secure as possible while sacrificing least possible amount
of ease-of-programming. This can be seen in the alpha/beta differences.
But we can get around without pointers (to functions or otherwise), and
cannot get around security holes.
Regards Smi
Smiljan Grmek
KSI Zagreb
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