Re: [cp-patches] StringBuilder and Appendable for CVS HEAD

[Michael Koch]

Am Montag, 13. Dezember 2004 16:53 schrieb Andrew John Hughes:
> Attached is a patch to add StringBuilder (a non-threaded derivative
> of StringBuffer) and Appendable, an additional interface it
> implements.  Currently, there is a small workaround so that the
> implementation of Appendable will compile.  The return type of
> these methods have had to be typed to Appendable rather than
> StringBuilder at present, as only 1.5 implements co-variant return
> types.  This can easily be fixed when Classpath compilers implement
> this, and using code only needs an explicit downcast to
> StringBuilder to work with this change.
>
> Anyway, let me know your thoughts ;)

There should at least be FIXME comments where we need to change the 
return types later.


Michael
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