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Re: Interchanging objects?

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From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Davej wrote:
> If two objects have the same method names, can one of them be cast as
> the other?

Not unless they are type compatible. Method names do not define type 
compatibility - in fact, doing it by name is the antithesis of type safety.

Read up on the conversion rules here:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/conversions.html

-- 
Lew

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Interchanging objects? Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-04 12:02 -0800
  Re: Interchanging objects? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-04 23:00 -0800
    Re: Interchanging objects? Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-05 07:41 -0800
      Re: Interchanging objects? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-05 11:34 -0800
      Re: Interchanging objects? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-08 22:42 -0800
        Re: Interchanging objects? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-09 09:21 -0800
  Re: Interchanging objects? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-02-07 08:09 -0500

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