[jdom-interest] For consideration

[bob mcwhirter]

Though, it all depends on your abstraction.

They can all have a base class of AnimateObject which can
move().  fly() or walk() is just an implementation detail.

	-bob

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Paul Philion wrote:

> Thank you, Amy.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amy Lewis" <amyzing at talsever.com>
> To: <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 12:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] For consideration
> 
> 
> > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:58:57PM -0700, James Duncan Davidson wrote:
> > >> I think Collection would qualify as interesting.  It has 15 methods.  A
> > >> List only has 25 total, so the majority of List is inherited from
> > >> Collection.
> > >
> > >What is truly interesting is that there are no *wasted* methods from
> > >Collection in List. List truly isa Collection in that every method from
> > >Collection is meaningful. This in contrast to the DOM style of using
> > >interfaces where methods that don't do anything are still around.
> > >
> > >IOW, I don't want to see a fly() method on something doesn't have wings.
> >
> > Real world: squirrels fly() (at least well enough) without wings (they
> > glide, really, but they have gliding surfaces).  Rockets fly().
> > Ostriches don't fly() (but have wings).  A number of boats have
> > surfaces that probably qualify as "wings" and serve a similar purpose
> > in liquid instead of air ... but they don't fly(), except
> > metaphorically.
> >
> > IOW, if the exceptions reflect reality, I can live with Bird.fly(),
> > even if some Birds have to throw OperationNotSupportedException (which,
> > btw, was *introduced* with the introduction of the new Collections
> > classes, and caused a tempest in a teapot as a result).
> >
> > Amy!
> > --
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> amyzing at talsever.com
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