Re: Multiple type bounds

From:
kelvSYC <kelvSYC@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:33:28 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<e80041fd-d661-47a8-abb5-21f0481a3d40@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 6, 8:10 pm, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:

kelvSYC wrote:

On Dec 6, 2:05 am, r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

kelvSYC <kelv...@gmail.com> writes:

private <T extends List<String> & RandomAccess> T
randomAccessStringList;

class Example
< T extends java.util.List< java.lang.String >& java.util.RandomAccess >
{ private T randomAccessStringList; }


Wouldn't that be genericizing the type?

Suppose you add a method

public setRandomAccessStringList(T list) { randomAccessStringList =
list; }

Then we have it that Example<ArrayList<String>> would accept setting
ArrayList<String> but not Vector<String>, while
Example<Vector<String>> would accept setting Vector<String> but not
ArrayList<String> - yet the original intention was for something that
could take both (and anything else that is both RandomAccess and
List<String>). It seems that there is still no way (short of raw
types) to have a T so that Example<T> takes ArrayList<String>,
Vector<String>, or MyCustomRandomAccessStringList as arguments.

So now working backwards: suppose we have

public <T extends List<String> & RandomAccess>
setRandomAccessSringList(T list) { randomAccessStringList = list; }

as a method in Example. How would you declare randomAccessStringList?


T randomAccessStringList;

--
Lew


What I meant was that suppose Example was not generic - like so:

public class Example {
    public <T extends List<String> & RandomAccess>
setRandomAccessStringList(T list) { randomAccessStringList = list; }

    private ??? randomAccessStringList;
}

What would go in ???.

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