Re: [cp-patches] StringBuilder and Appendable for CVS HEAD

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:07, Michael Koch wrote:
> Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2004 16:53 schrieb Andrew John Hughes:
> > Attached is a patch to add StringBuilder (a non-threaded derivative
> > of StringBuffer) and Appendable, an additional interface it
> > implements.  Currently, there is a small workaround so that the
> > implementation of Appendable will compile.  The return type of
> > these methods have had to be typed to Appendable rather than
> > StringBuilder at present, as only 1.5 implements co-variant return
> > types.  This can easily be fixed when Classpath compilers implement
> > this, and using code only needs an explicit downcast to
> > StringBuilder to work with this change.
> >
> > Anyway, let me know your thoughts ;)
> 
> There should at least be FIXME comments where we need to change the 
> return types later.
> 
> 
> Michael

My thoughts exactly, which is why I put them in ;)

It doesn't affect using it as a drop-in StringBuffer replacement, only
in using it via the Appendable interface (which is only in 1.5 and this
patch itself).
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