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

  • From: Werner Keil < >
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  • Subject: Re: Remove "generic" multiply/divide operations from Quantity
  • Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:20:08 +0200

Actually JEP101 is extremely similar to Otavio's aim:
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/101

If along the JEP "Error, expected Quantity<Area>, found Quantity<Mass>"
would also work for methods like multiply() or divide() as it does for all
others like add(), subtract(), etc. it would be nice, but it seems it would
of course only do so from Java SE 8 on or even later.

Nobody in the EC really gives a damn about such a detail to be honest,
unless they are involved in a JSR like Leo or myself they care about the
license, read the Spec document (some, not all;-) or at most ask people in
their company.
Mohamed seconding Otavio's proposal sounds like e.g. MoroccoJUG feels they
also support it, at least he's among those voting for it in the EC.

Both are perfectly fine with the Java language standard, while some methods
e.g. asType() cause a lit of trouble under SE 8u20 and above.

Werner


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

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

Otávio Gonçalves de Santana 10/17/2014

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

Werner Keil 10/17/2014

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

Werner Keil 10/17/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Werner Keil 10/17/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/17/2014

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

Werner Keil 10/17/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/17/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Jean-Marie Dautelle 10/17/2014

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

Werner Keil 10/17/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Werner Keil 10/18/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/18/2014

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

Martin Desruisseaux 10/17/2014

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

Werner Keil 10/16/2014
 
 
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