[637] in java-interest
Re: Categories in Java?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Mon Jul 10 16:40:20 1995
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 13:24:13 -0700
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: mikef@xnet.com
Cc: phil@bolthole.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Mike Fleming's message of Mon, 10 Jul 1995 14:58:37 -0500 (CDT) <199507101958.OAA27072@cyclone.xnet.com>
> A category may, like a class, acknowledges that it conforms to an interface.
> A category is not supposed to override methods that already are implemented
> by a class. A category may not declare new instance variables, but it may
> use existing ones.
It seems like a terrible security hole to me; you could subclass a system
type and do whatever the hell you wanted.
> Does anyone who has never seen categories beforte understand what I'm
> talking about?
Except as noted above, it makes sense to me.
M.
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