Re: [aspectj-users] problem with inter-type declaration - inserting a me

[George Harley1 <GHARLEY@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you so much Ganesh, I knew that
there had to be something really straightforward that I was overlooking.


Best regards,
George
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Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@xxxxxxxx>
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06/12/2004 21:22

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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, George Harley1 wrote:

> I think there is still something more to be explained here though.
 Just
> as I was about to press send on the above response, I noticed that,
with
> your original code still in place, removing the implementation of
> toString() from BaseClass resulted in the compiler error going away.
Which
> is surprising (to me anyway) since the class SubclassData is surely
still
> inheriting the toString() method from its more distant ancestor
> java.lang.Object. Perhaps java.lang.Object is a special case in the
Java
> conflict resolution rules. Now, where did I put that language spec
... ?

java.lang.Object is an explicit base class of every interface, so
the interface methods will be viewed as overriding the toString
method from there.

Cheers,

Ganesh

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