Can you explain again about how to use new collections classes along side Swarm collections?

[Paul E Johnson]

I've been tinkering again with my tree-based collections class and I run
into this problem. I run into the problem of name space clashes between
my methods that use the same names as collections in the Swarm
collections, methods like "getCount" "getFirst".  One side-effect of the
gcc in RH7 seems to be more harrassment about duplication of methods.
Maybe I just never noticed them before, but I don't think so. 

If I could create my new class AVLTree as a from Collection_any, this
would not happen, but there is some voodoo in Swarm blocking me from
subclassing from it.  

I have found that one way to solve this problem is to explicitly type
(or declare Protocol of) every collection created, except this cramps my
style in a few places where I want a method to receive any of the swarm
collections, not a particular one.

I thought there was a way to circumvent the blockade on inheriting from
Collection_any, but I can't find it.

Have a nice day.

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