Re: Comparable loses its interface powers.
Roedy Green wrote:
String no longer implements Comparable, it implements
Comparable<String> which will not cast to Comparable or
Comparable<Object>
markspace wrote:
I'm pretty sure String will cast to Comparable<String>.
Lew wrote:
Of course it will. I don't know where the notion comes from that 'String'
does not implement 'Comparable<String>', when it says right in the Javadocs
that it does.
Roedy Green wrote:
String DOES implement Comparable<String>. Nobody claimed it did not.
I read markspace's comment as an implicit claim that it didn't.
The problem is when you want to use the Comparable the way you did
before generics, where you compare any two Objects and the JVM sorted
out which compareTo method to use depending on the type of the Object.
But if you had different types in the column you'd get a run-time exception.
That's bad. In the good new days, you use generics to catch that at compile
time. Since, presumably, you know the type of the column's contents, you can
make things play nicely before you reach run time.
You can't cast a Comparable<String> to a Comparable<Object>
Nor should you want to in this case. If the column contains 'String' data,
then you stay with 'Comparable<String>'.
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