Jonathan Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # "parser"...?! If you have an 'Object o', say one just received as an > # argument, and cast it to IBlahble, a la > # > # IBlahble blah = (IBlahble) o; > # > # ...what can the parser ever say about it? > > Maybe you didn't read the "I think" in my OP. Anyway, you clearly > know more about (or have more recent experience with) Java than I do.
My real-world experience with Java is very dated -- nowadays, I'm told, the NEED to cast is vastly reduced by Java 1.5's "generics" (I haven't yet written one line of Java 1.5, not even for "play" purposes, much less "real world" ones;-). Still, all the casting that used to work still works, so the purported "compile-time type safety" is worth as much as the social compact to "don't use any of the container classes that used to work until 1.4.*, but ONLY the very newest ones in 1.5"!-) So much for "compiler enforcement", hm?-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
