Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: "Program to an interface" - When to break a design pattern Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 18:18:36 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <9dt5s6dalhetgfe99qs92c02hf0dbas44e@4ax.com> <2psjssq4zj.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pfwosq07f.fsf@shell.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net KjReLUlWx+0NQqP/TRBAokKF+A9Yt30zRsHSa6rGkBbUsy3XD0bpDnc8Dkj+JZokXheYFeDZpR5Tezrxf1gI1Q== NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 22:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="ZSeB1x5FRyidXXE2cabRy15A0pPJh6h+y9fMGNbSKJq5aL/+O/E6throu1/osD6irsgWYA4IiLVmWg8bzCI1AkwPT13ACSOuWTLvAjaB9owgA5dHrOo3tqH3X7lRIN7N"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: <2pfwosq07f.fsf@shell.xmission.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:1sDW9KuyNFF0sgkp/0aOaE5jgSU= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3610 Jim Janney wrote: > But that would be wrong, because a SortedMap does something entirely > different from a LinkedHashMap. Take your own advice before dispensing > it to others. It's a fair cop. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg