Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-11-05 Thread Stephen Kestle
Created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-233 Stephen Kestle wrote: I shall be opening a ticket for the Closure one in the next while (when I get a chance). Note that Procedure and Function don't actually say anything - they're very broad programming principals. Also note tha

Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-11-05 Thread Stephen Kestle
If only I had more than +1 vote! Stephen Colebourne wrote: There has been reltively little feedback on these backwards incompatible changes. Do I assume (by lazy consensus) that [collections-generics] will be seriously backwards incompatible? Can I commit changes? Are we agreed on the strategy

Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-11-03 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 11/3/06, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There has been reltively little feedback on these backwards incompatible changes. Do I assume (by lazy consensus) that [collections-generics] will be seriously backwards incompatible? Can I commit changes? Are we agreed on the strategy "pr

Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen Smith
+1 Better to break compatibility upfront as part of an explicit design decision, than to see it slowly wither away. -- Stephen Smith, MEng (Wales). http://www.stephen-smith.co.uk/ Stephen Colebourne wrote: There has been reltively little feedback on these backwards incompatible changes. Do I

Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen Colebourne
There has been reltively little feedback on these backwards incompatible changes. Do I assume (by lazy consensus) that [collections-generics] will be seriously backwards incompatible? Can I commit changes? Are we agreed on the strategy "produce the best API", rather than "produce a compatible A

Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-10-29 Thread Stephen Kestle
I shall be opening a ticket for the Closure one in the next while (when I get a chance). Note that Procedure and Function don't actually say anything - they're very broad programming principals. Also note that a Factory may not actually create/generate something (it may already be in the ware

Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-10-28 Thread Michael Heuer
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > First analysis of the collection subpackage of [collections] for the > generics branch. > > - BoundedCollection should be deleted/renamed to Bounded > new Bounded interface would not implement Collection, allowing it to be > implemented by Maps as w

Re: [collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-10-27 Thread Henri Yandell
On 10/27/06, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First analysis of the collection subpackage of [collections] for the generics branch. - BoundedCollection should be deleted/renamed to Bounded new Bounded interface would not implement Collection, allowing it to be implemented by Maps as

[collections] Generics & the collection subpackage

2006-10-27 Thread Stephen Colebourne
First analysis of the collection subpackage of [collections] for the generics branch. - BoundedCollection should be deleted/renamed to Bounded new Bounded interface would not implement Collection, allowing it to be implemented by Maps as well as Collections - UnmodifiableBoundedCollection sho