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Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method

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In article <itu79o$6oh$1@dont-email.me>,
Eric Sosman  <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 3:46 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> > Dear Jav'ers:
> >
> >       Maybe I will find this after searching more, but so far, no good.
> >
> >       I want to pass a parameter of a method name to another method.
> >
> >       N.B.: I do not want to pass the method name as a string.  I want
> > to pass it as a pointer / reference / whatever term is used for this
> > in Java.
> 
>      (It's "reference."  The only data items a Java program can
> manipulate are primitives and references.)
> 
>      Pass a reference to an object that implements an agreed-upon
> interface.  See, for example, the two-argument version of
> java.util.Arrays.sort().

Sound advice IMO -- if you're familiar with the C library function
qsort, with its function-pointer parameter, comparing it with the
two-argument version of Arrays.sort may be helpful, since IMO they
provide roughly equivalent functionality, and a compare-and-contrast
with something familiar might be easier to grok than suggestions that
might be a little over the head of a novice (no offense to Gene).
In the long term learning good object-oriented design is probably
a good thing, but in the short term ....

[ snip ]

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.

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Passing a Method Name to a Method Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-22 12:46 -0700
  Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com> - 2011-06-22 16:00 -0400
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-23 14:40 -0700
      Re: isIdentifierCharacter (was: Passing a Method Name to a Method) Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-23 16:09 -0700
  Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-22 14:14 -0700
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com> - 2011-06-22 22:59 -0400
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 17:49 +0000
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-23 11:22 -0700
        Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 19:15 +0000
  Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-22 22:09 -0400
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-23 09:07 -0700
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com> - 2011-06-23 13:43 -0400
        Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Nebulous <nebulous99@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 13:57 -0700
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-24 07:28 -0400
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-23 17:53 +0000
  Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-06-22 22:30 -0400
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-06-23 09:06 -0300
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-06-23 13:23 -0300
        Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-06-23 09:33 -0700
          Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-06-23 17:53 -0300
            Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-06-23 19:15 -0700
              Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com> - 2011-06-24 01:48 -0400
                Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-06-24 02:20 -0400
                Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com> - 2011-06-25 15:26 -0400
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com> - 2011-06-23 13:42 -0400
        Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-23 11:32 -0700
          Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-06-23 16:23 -0300
          Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com> - 2011-06-23 15:46 -0400
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-23 16:29 -0700
    Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-23 14:44 -0700
      Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-24 07:48 -0400
  Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-06-23 09:43 -0700

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