[3755] in java-interest
Re: Fundamental flaw in Java library distribution scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Griswold)
Sat Nov 25 18:21:23 1995
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 95 13:59:01 PST
To: Per Danvind <perry@cdt.luth.se>
From: david@longview.com (David Griswold)
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM,
wnj@sw.central.Sun.COM
You wrote:
> ... This is not wrong. Class L can't know that there now is a new
>method in class C. Think about it. If you add a method to a class
>C, wouldn't it be strange if classes using that class, suddenly
>started calling this new method, without even being recompiled!?
You are right. It would be strange. That is my point.
Given your understanding of this issue, don't you find it even
stranger that Sun claims in the Java white paper
that Java programs *don't* have to be recompiled when the libraries
they use change? You, and I, and many other people can see from
my example, and your example above, that they do indeed need
to be recompiled. That is all I am trying to
say.
-Dave
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