[jdom-interest] Element instanceof stacks

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:43 PM -0400 4/19/02, Alex Rosen wrote:


>... assuming that they recompile. But if they just drop in the new jdom.jar
>and don't recompile all their calling classes, I think that it won't work,
>right?
>

I'm not sure. Java binds pretty late relative to other languages, so 
I think the actual method might be chosen at runtime, but I'm not 
sure. If it's a problem we can deprecate for a beta cycle, and remove 
them later.
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