Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 18:28:07 -0500
From: Zapanaz <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl@foo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: "Program to an interface" - When to break a design pattern
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 16:28:40 -0700
Message-ID: <uclbs65j1f1dbe35a5j0l1e9e3j0p65lti@4ax.com>
References: <9dt5s6dalhetgfe99qs92c02hf0dbas44e@4ax.com>	<2psjssq4zj.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <ipv16s$gho$1@dont-email.me>	<2poc3gq3p2.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <ipv4ij$pbe$3@news.albasani.net> <m3vcxot4vu.fsf@despammed.com> <iq16va$ed2$2@news.albasani.net>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 31
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-8ri4rbHcOdc6rBSWU0NFc5xPQ6TmIxoI9bwZ8sc674qG/Vmc5ehttIcgyKp/qLMptbxkmxwNGsdOrbU!FYAltf4Gy3CocKkSfnARJErirBhPEKUjZwfgnEBzEUOJ6rpKDcww9SOF6g/c9vQufQvCexE=
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes: 2445
Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3772

On Fri, 06 May 2011 12:17:55 -0400, Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote:

>On 05/06/2011 08:01 AM, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:
>> Lew<noone@lewscanon.com>  writes:
>>> Jim Janney wrote:
>>>> The justification is not in the code shown, but in the accompanying
>>>> remark "I need the map to retain the insertion order."  There's no
>>>> interface in the JRE that promises this,
>>
>>> other than
>>> <http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/SortedMap.html>
>>> you mean.
>>
>> But I'm looking at the SortedMap and LinkedHashMap javadocs, and it
>> seems to me that LinkedHashMap doesn't implement the SortedMap
>> interface.
>> So, defining the return value as SortedMap you'd have to change the
>> actual implementation class.
>
>Yes, noted multiple times so far.  I was wrong.

My method name was unfortunate.
-- 
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/ 
You know you're in Saskatchewan when you can sit on your front porch 
and watch your dog run away for three days

:: Currently listening to Todesfuge, 2003, by Diamanda Galás, from "Defixiones, Will and Testament"