Article:  |
10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0 | |
| Subject: | make Object inherit Array and not visa-versa | |
| Date: | 2002-08-07 03:23:22 | |
| From: | muchandr | |
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The types of all Objects are typechecked, but the types of Objects stored in an array object are not - this produces a lot of security flaws. If an Object was a kind of an Array and not the other way around, none of this would be possible. Of course, making an array a basic type in an object language is rather un-PC, but it would also make all the proposed vector extensions very easy. |
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