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March 15, 2010

Joe Darcy: Beware of Covariant Overriding in Interface Hierarchies. One of the changes to the Java programming language made back in JDK 5 was the introduction of covariant returns, that is, the ability in a subtype to override a method in a supertype and return a more specific type. For example,

March 14, 2010

Stephen Colebourne: Java language design by use case. In a blog in 2006 Neal Gafter wrote about how language design was fundamentally different to API design and how use cases were a bad approach to language design. This blog questions some of those conclusions in the context of the Java language.

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July 11, 2009

Landon Fuller: Using Blocks: Understanding the Memory Management Rules

I just finished uploading PLBlocks 1.0-beta2, which adds support for iPhoneOS 2.2, iPhone 3GS armv7-optimized binaries, and host support for PPC systems (release announcement). This seems like a good time a good time to continue with my ad-hoc serie...

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