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Re: Abducktion

Posted by Russell Standish-2 on Apr 23, 2013; 2:24am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-Abducktion-tp7582900p7582923.html

You're right. I was forgetting about java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke.

But it is a PITA doing things that way, whereas C++ generic
programming is designed for duck typing.

Cheers

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:16:01PM -0600, Joshua Thorp wrote:
> You can do Duck typing in Java via methods requiring Objects (the base class of all other Java objects) and using reflection to test for various properties.  But it is working against the grain of the language to do so.  Intersting run down of various implementations here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing
>
> --joshua

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