Change the signatures of the conflicting methods in generic class ?

[FOUAD-SPIDER]

Hi there, I have this question and I really need the answer, I really don't understand anything in generics at all

Here is the question:

Generic parameters are not included in the signature of a method declaration, so you cannot have different methods in the same class that have different generic parameters but otherwise have the same names and the types and number of their parameters. How can you change the signatures of the conflicting methods to get around this restriction?

I hope someone could help me ^^

Thanks in advance!

[FOUAD-SPIDER]

Here is a hint I found it somewhere:

Look at how the java.util.Scanner class does it.

[pbrockway2]

If you know nothing about generics it's rather hard to see how anybody could even begin to answer in a way you would find enlightening.

But, frankly, it looks like a request-for-homework-solution. I might be wrong and I hope I am: so what did you find in the Scanner source? (src.zip whereever your jdk is installed contains the file you are looking for). Was there even an example of the sort of situation you are talking about?

[gcalvin]

This won't help you understand generics (and you'll need to study and understand generics to fully answer the question), but notice that java.util.Scanner has a bunch of methods such as nextInt(), nextFloat(), nextDouble() etc.

-Gary-

[pbrockway2]

Now I'm intrigued: why don't you offer us $1 the way you did at "Student of Fortune"? Because you rate us as more noble than those pond scum? Or merely the thought that such a miserly offer might elicit a less than friendly response?

[pbrockway2]

I can't get at p146 of the book where that comes from (Google is proving uncooperative), but Scanner doesn't seem to have much generic about it. What gcalvin says is one way around the problem, another seems nicely illustrated in the java.lang.Enum class.

[Fubarable]

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[pbrockway2]

$2?

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