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Re: return a Collection (Set or List)

by Roedy Green <see_website@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 13, 2008 at 07:39 PM

On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:37:53 -0700, Mark Space
<markspace@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Consider substituting two methods for this one.  "getAsList" and 
>"getAsSet" Then the caller can indicate which type is desired and always 
>receive the correct type.

If it is always possible to get as List, why would you ever return
anything else?  You can always use a List as a Set.
-- 

Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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 11 Posts in Topic:
return a Collection (Set or List)
thufir <hawat.thufir@[  2008-05-13 11:29:57 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-13 08:18:51 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Roedy Green <see_websi  2008-05-13 12:40:58 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Mark Space <markspace@  2008-05-13 11:37:53 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Roedy Green <see_websi  2008-05-13 19:39:07 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Eric Sosman <Eric.Sosm  2008-05-13 16:13:07 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-13 19:41:37 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Roedy Green <see_websi  2008-05-14 08:22:59 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
thufir <hawat.thufir@[  2008-05-13 22:38:12 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
RedGrittyBrick <RedGri  2008-05-14 10:27:23 
Re: return a Collection (Set or List)
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-14 08:07:30 

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