....and let me add that there may be better ways to accomplish this, for example by requiring that all overrides must explicitly be annotated with @Override and that any method overriding without one is an error...
On Mar 13, 4:30 pm, TorNorbye <tor.nor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 13, 1:37 pm, "marcelomorales.n...@gmail.com" > > <marcelomorales.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Arround min 36:10 - 38:00, there is a discussion on override methods. > > > Non-overrideable is on the language today. isn't it?. > > Listening to ep 234 seemed that they forgot final methods, the 'final' > > keyword. I am missing something? > > Yes - I'm the one who brought it up in that discussion, and what I'm > talking about is not @NotOverridABLE, but @NotOverridING. > > In other words, let's say you have > > public class LibraryClass { // Some class in some cool library > > } > > public class Donkey extends LibraryClass { > �...@new public void run() { > } > > } > > Compile that, no problem. > > Now let's say you go and upgrade from version 1.0 of the library to > version 1.1. What if the developer in version 1.1 had done this: > > public class LibraryClass implements Runnable { // Some class in some > cool library > public void run() { > // Some important piece of functionality here that other parts > of the class depend upon > } > > } > > Now your method is accidentally overriding the run method. It wasn't > intended to - when you wrote your subclass of the library class, this > method wasn't present. > > With the @New (or @NotOverride etc) annotations the compiler would > complain because it sees that your method which wasn't intended to > override anything suddenly is. > > -- Tor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---