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| From | Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? |
| Date | 2014-02-14 15:36 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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A late response... Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> wrote: > RTTI doesn't enter into the picture. The problems it solves are > downcasts and reflection. The problem is doing an upcast between two > classes, neither of which are the most derived type of a class. Even in > C++, the most derived type is easy to find (it's the vtable pointer). I knew that RTTI isn't itself necessary, but I thought that as Java has RTTI already, the need for analysis of non-trivial downcasts wouldn't be a show stopper. >>> Multiple inheritance throws a wrinkle into this scheme because of the >>> diamond problem. If D inherits from B and C, which both inherit from A, >>> then the standard way of laying out the class yields two copies of A. >> That would have been my preferred MI approach for Java... > This approach means that following statement holds: > D d = new D(); > (A)(B)d != (A)(C)d; That sure looks surprising :-} Maybe some restrictions on MI could avoid these cases, while still allowing other parts of MI. Obviously disallowing diamonds altogether won't cut it, as "Object" would be always there as an "A". Eventually, non-primary "is-a" relations would turn into "behaves like a", which could boil down to treating the non-primary superclasses like interfaces, except that there would be a way to adopt methods to some degree... I think I once read about some approach of that kind that was already more thought out than my utterings here.
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Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-14 17:39 +0100
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Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2013-11-26 21:28 +0000
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-26 23:29 +0100
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2013-11-27 05:13 +0000
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-27 22:57 +0100
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2013-11-29 23:22 +0000
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-11-30 14:41 +0100
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-11-30 16:49 -0600
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-11-27 23:07 -0600
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-28 23:41 +0000
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-11-29 00:08 -0600
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2013-11-29 16:49 +0000
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2013-11-30 16:46 -0600
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-02-14 15:36 +0000
Re: Alternatives languages on the JVM: which one or is there no alternative? v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2013-11-29 23:37 +0000
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