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Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method

From "Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council" <fp-eotbp-gc@ibm.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Passing a Method Name to a Method
Date 2011-06-22 22:59 -0400
Organization IBM
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On 22/06/2011 5:14 PM, markspace wrote:
> public interface Language {
> parse( Reader in );
> }
>
> You could of course pass in the language at the same time, but that's a
> little less OOD.
>
> public class Parser {
> public static parse( Language parser, Reader in ) {
> parser.parse( in );
> }
> }
>
> Note that the "don't do it in Java" guy, Fuschia, is off his rocker.

Wrong.

> This is very efficient in Java as the JVM will recognize the JavaParser
> class is effectively final and optimize the call to use non-virtual calls.

I never claimed otherwise. In fact that approach is exactly what I 
recommended he use if he insisted on not going to a JVM language that 
better supports functional programming.

It was using the Reflection API and Method objects that I said would not 
be efficient.

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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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