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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: How to assign an object to another in it method?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:19:40 -0000 (UTC)
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Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/13/2017 2:09 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> I am objecting two these two:
>>>>>>> Ideally, a subclass should be allowed to "remove" methods
>>>>>> In this case why wouldn't you override Rectangle.setDimensions() with a
>>>>>> variant that throws an exception if the two dimensions differ
>>> Sub classes should not remove functionality.
>> Maybe there's still some confusion about what "removing" means here.
> I consider overriding a method and unconditionally throw an
> exception toe be removing.

By this definition, the unmodifiableList|Set|Map wouldn't be a List|Set|Map
either...