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Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals?

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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.

I'm not sure off hand who is working on the extension methods.  It might 
be a good idea to contact them about getting CharSequence modified along 
with whatever else they'll be doing.

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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
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      Re: Why No Supplemental Characters In Character Literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-02-04 22:32 -0500
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