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| Date | 2011-07-24 10:54 -0700 |
|---|---|
| From | Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Arithmetic overflow checking |
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On 7/24/2011 10:40 AM, markspace wrote:
> On 7/24/2011 9:16 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>> I think it might be better to create a marker interface
>> java.math.Arithmetic. I do like the idea of a fixed mapping from
>> operators to method names that are normal identifiers.
>
>
> I'd be concerned that a marker interface could be abused.
>
> public abstract class BaseNumber extends Number {
> public abstract BaseNumber add( Number n );
> public abstract BaseNumber subtract( Number n );
> public abstract BaseNumber mul( Number n );
> public abstract BaseNumber[] div( Number n );
> public abstract BaseNumber modulo( Number n );
> }
>
> Then restrict operator overloading to a class like BaseNumber and its
> subclasses. Some classes in the existing Java API like BigDecimal may
> need to also extend BaseNumber.
Whatever is done can, and will, be abused. People will just make their
non-arithmetic classes for which they want "+" extend BaseNumber, and
meanwhile complex would be forced to provide a meaningless conversion to
byte.
Patricia
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Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Henderson <h1@g1.f1> - 2011-07-23 22:55 -0400
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-24 09:16 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-24 10:40 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-24 10:54 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-24 11:09 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-24 12:53 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-24 15:15 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-24 15:41 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Henderson <h1@g1.f1> - 2011-07-25 03:21 -0400
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Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-25 09:09 -0700
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Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-07-21 12:52 +0000
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Henderson <h1@g1.f1> - 2011-07-21 15:58 -0400
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-21 17:06 -0400
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-20 14:35 -0700
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-20 18:22 -0400
Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-21 14:54 -0700
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