Re: [Rails-devel] Java style point

[Brett L. <wak...@ea...>]

I think this is a good direction to take. 

Are you able to submit some code to move us in that direction?


---Brett.

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On 3/2/2005 at 10:12 PM Iain Adams using ia...@co...=
 declared:

>I suggested in a previous post using interfaces for primary datatype
>definitions: one example of how this is done can be found in the Java
>Collections framework. Here List is an interface which has a number of
>implementation classes, which differ in their internal representations:
>ArrayList LinkedList, etc. StockMarket.getIpoPile() has a return type of
>ArrayList - this class should be free to change its list representation
>without an API change, which can be achieved by declaring the method to
>return a List. Personally, I would also make the member variable ipoPile=
 be
>type List, and initialise it as a 'new ArrayList()' in the first instance.
>
>Iain.
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