Re: [cp-patches] [generics] Patch: FYI: StringBuilder

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 04:10, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew John Hughes <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Andrew> Will you be committing this to the main branch as well?
> Andrew> At a glance, I can't see anything in it that requires any of the
> Andrew> compile features, such as generics, from 1.5.
> 
> I wasn't planning to.
> 
> It does implement Appendable, which is also new in 1.5.
> That isn't ready for merge as it isn't documented (easy to fix
> though).
> 
> Tom

I didn't spot the interface, but as long as it still doesn't have any
1.5 compile features, we should be okay to go (at a guess, I would think
it is one of the new 'marker'-style interfaces they seem to have added
in 1.5 -- io also has Flushable and Closeable ones now, which are just
markers for the existing flush() and close() methods respectively) --
but I haven't had chance to look yet.  I spotted StringBuilder a while
back, and was going to have a look at implementing it at some point --
seems you beat me to it.

As to documentation, I wouldn't mind helping you out with some of this,
as I seem to have roped myself in to doing a fair bit already (I can't
stand something being undocumented , so every small code patch seems to
be wrapped up with documentation additions -- especially in Swing).  I
take it generics is just a branch from the standard Classpath
repository?  With gcjx being one of the possible compilers for it?
-- 
Andrew :-)
 
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