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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

From	Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com>
Subject	Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:37:21 -0800, markspace wrote:

> On 2/4/2011 1:25 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> 
>> Yeah. But that's not quite the same thing, is it? What with OOP and
>> all.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> Since it's not possible to add new methods to an interface without
> breaking all existing subclasses, I have to assume that is why
> CharSequence was never modified.
> 
> The Lambda project for Java has been working on closures.  They've also
> proposed extension methods/defender methods to allow Java interfaces to
> be modified.  I think the best chance of getting CharSequence modified
> would be through that mechanism when it becomes available.

So, sometime around the establishment of our first Mars colony. Gotcha. :)

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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net.invalid> - 2011-02-04 22:25 +0100
  Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? markspace <nospam@nowhere.com> - 2011-02-04 16:37 -0800
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 04:26 +0100
      Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Ken Wesson <kwesson@gmail.com> - 2011-02-05 04:47 +0100
      Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 22:32 -0500
    Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 20:06 -0500

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