Re: overriding method with different return type

From: Chris Uppal (chris.uppal_at_metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org)
Date: 04/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:29:05 +0100

Paul J. Lucas wrote:

> I want Base's param() to return a reference to Base.ParamBlock and
> Derived's param() to return a reference to Derived.ParamBlock.

That will be legal in 1.5 (you can try out the beta to confirm).

Be aware, however, that it is not implemented only by "relaxing" the rules of
the language (since the JVM doesn't support the change), but by making the Java
compiler automatically emit forwarding methods.

    -- chris

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