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Re: Co-/Contravariance and @Override...

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Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

> class MyFoo extends MyBase implements Foo {
>    @Override public void foo(CharSequence c) { ... }
> }
> 
> For reasons I do not quite understand, eclipse complains about it.
> Eclipse claims that my foo method doesn't merit the @Override.
> Why not?  Isn't it so, that subclasses can be more lenient about
> accepted types, as long as the inherited constraints are met?

You're not overwriting a method but implementing an interface,
so the Overwrite-annotation can't be used at all. Some versions
of Eclipse accept that, though.


Regards, Lothar
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Co-/Contravariance and @Override... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2015-01-25 18:12 +0000
  Re: Co-/Contravariance and @Override... Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2015-01-26 00:52 +0100
    Re: Co-/Contravariance and @Override... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2015-01-26 01:52 +0000
  Re: Co-/Contravariance and @Override... Andreas Leitgeb <avl@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2015-01-26 01:46 +0000

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