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Re: Remove "generic" multiply/divide operations from Quantity

  • From: Otávio Gonçalves de Santana < >
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  • Subject: Re: Remove "generic" multiply/divide operations from Quantity
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:06:44 -0300

Martin.
Is there any place in the new JavaSE API that does something like you
propose to do?


On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Martin Desruisseaux <
>
 wrote:

>  Otavio, all the JDK examples you gave below are *safe*, because:
>
>    - In an empty list/set/map, the type of elements (Integer, String,
>    etc.) become irrelevant.
>    - In asList, the relationship between input and output types is
>    correctly expressed. The method signature:
>
>  <T> List<T> asList(T... a)
>
>  said: "*the type of elements in the list is the same than the type of
> the given elements*", which is correct.
>
> By contract, UNITSOFMEASUREMENT-62 is *unsafe*. The following method
> signature:
>
> <T extends Quantity<T>,R extends Quantity<R>> Quantity<R> 
> multiply(Quantity<T> that)
>
>  said: "*there is no relationship between the type of this instance Q,
> the input type T and the output type R*" (otherwise, please show me where
> the relationship is expressed). The fact that this signature declares no
> relationship is why the compiler accepts anything like "mass =
> length.multiply(time)". This method signature is wrong - the reality is
> not an absence of relationship. The reality is a relationship that we can
> not express in Java.
>
>
>      Martin
>
>
> Le 17/10/14 08:44, Otávio Gonçalves de Santana a écrit :
>
> About the question of Martin, Yes we can do and there are in in SE api
> such java.util.Collections
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html>,
> java.util.Arrays
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html>, etc.
>
>          List<Integer> intergers = Collections.emptyList();
>         List<String> strings = Collections.emptyList();
>
>         java.util.Set<Integer> intergersSet = Collections.emptySet();
>         java.util.Set<String> stringsSet = Collections.emptySet();
>
>         java.util.Map<String, Integer> map = Collections.emptyMap();
>         java.util.Map<String, String> map2 = Collections.emptyMap();
>
>         List<Long> longs = java.util.Arrays.asList(1L, 2L, 3L);
>         List<Integer> ints = java.util.Arrays.asList(1, 2, 4);
>
>
>  I can do something like this and still the Java language :)
>
>
>


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Re: Remove "generic" multiply/divide operations from Quantity

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