On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, John Yu wrote:
> Steve,
>
> An initial thought:
>
> I suppose what you have in mind is MutableString extends java.util.String.
String is final. Same for all/most of the Immutable painful things.
> > 4) Pair. Is this Collections? Dunno. Anyway, pairs seem to be nice
> > sometimes. I only have one because I was porting the lisp examples to Java
> > from the lisp book [yep, i'm that sick].
>
> Isn't o.a.c.collections.DefaultMapEntry, fulfilling the role of Pair?
Possibly, though it isn't semantically. Assuming there's a need for a Pair
class, using DefaultMapEntry would not fulfill it, even if the
functionality were the same.
My vague view being that things can be syntactically the same but
semantically different.
Hen
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