In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Alan Morgan wrote: > >> Since Java doesn't allow function overloading that clearly can't be >> the way. J2SE 5.0 allows generic classes and functions that operate >> on generic containers. There are some gotchas, but it's not drastically >> more complex than the original int-only java code. > > Doesn't Java restrict generics to only operate on reference types so >you can't produce a generic binary search that operates on arrays where >the item type may be int?
Yup, you have to wrap int (and double and float and...). Blame type erasure. Alan -- Defendit numerus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
