Re: what is the shortest series of casts needed to get

2015-10-10 Thread Lawrence Krubner
Thank you. This was a good idea: > So if your coworkers code just needs something iterable (for example), you may > not need to do any casting at all: just give him the vector. On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 9:39:36 PM UTC-4, Francis Avila wrote: > > Does he actually need a real arraylist,

what is the shortest series of casts needed to get

2015-10-04 Thread Francis Avila
Does he actually need a real arraylist, or will something fulfilling a collection interface (Collection, Iterable, or List for example) be ok? Many clojure types do not require any casting at all as long as the java code writes to a collection interface and doesn't expect to be able to mutate th

what is the shortest series of casts needed to get

2015-10-04 Thread Lawrence Krubner
My co-worker wrote an app in Java, which I call as a library within my own app. His code is expecting an ArrayList, and up until now I've been handing in an empty one like this: accounts (java.util.ArrayList. 1000) sentence-parse-response-map (.init instance-of-sentence-parser