One import static to rule them all (original) (raw)

Remi Forax forax at univ-mlv.fr
Wed Feb 6 16:35:29 PST 2013

On 02/07/2013 01:28 AM, Kevin Bourrillion wrote:

I have been promised that this won't work -- that to invoke a static method on an interface one /must/ refer to the exact interface it was defined on, not a subtype, not an instance. Can someone please confirm this is true?

We talk about a call like Interface.staticM(), but we never talk about the static import explicitly. So if someone does a static import on an interface, you suggest that the compiler should see only the static methods declared in the interface and all the static fields declared or inherited from inherited interfaces (for backward compat.) ?

Rémi

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr_ _<mailto:forax at univ-mlv.fr>> wrote: I wonder if we should not create one artificial interface that extends Collector, FlatMapper, etc, i.e. every interfaces that declare static methods that can be used by the Stream API just because it will be easier to do an import static on this interface. interface StaticDefaults // better name needed extends Collector<Void, Void>, FlatMapper<Void,Void> { } otherwise, every Java projects will define its own one. cheers, Rémi

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