Re: Inner class and interface question (I posted some really long
code)
On 12/29/2011 11:02 PM, GGolf wrote:
On 12/28/2011 11:59 AM, Chad wrote:
I'm want to put the getHead() method in the BagInterface. However, I
can't do this because the compiler keeps saying it can't find 'class
Node' in Location BagInterface<T>. I guess this is because Node is an
inner class of my LinkedList class. Ideas how to fix this? Ideally I
want to preserve the inner class.
Referencing an inner class in the way you have described doesn't seem
quite right. An interface shouldn't have any knowledge of its
implementors. You should probably extract the class so that it's no
longer an inner class.
I disagree. It is very reasonable for a linked list implementation to
have an inner class representing the nodes that will be linked together.
I think it should remain, and indeed be made private.
I do not think the interface should say anything at all about Node.
There are other ways of implementing a bag that do not have any such
class. The interface should deal entirely in terms of the generic type
T, the payload data type.
Patricia
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