Hi Benedict, Benedikt Ritter wrote:
> Hi, > > finally I've found the time to answer to this topic :) We had a similar > discussion a while ago [1]. Back then James suggested to drop > collections completely in favor of google guava. I have started to > implement QueryableCollections in trunk anyway, because I still disagree > with James. > I would appreciate comments from one of commons collections commiters, > if they would like to have something like that. I still think, that the > possibility to query for elements would be a nice addition to collections. > > ATM I'm having some problems with the latest source: > Name clash: The method get(K) of type MultiMap<K,V> has the same erasure > as get(Object) of type Get<K,V> but does not override it > > Does anyone know something about that? That's a very unfortunate signature from the JDK interface and all I can guess, why it defines Object as argument, is for compatibility reasons. If we derive from the JDK interface, you cannot declare "get(K)", only "get(Object)". - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
