From: John B. Matthews on
In article <4be87904$0$275$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj <arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> On 10-05-2010 11:31, John B. Matthews wrote:
> > Recently, the Java example in the Wikipedia article entitled "Adapter
> > Pattern" [1] was modified to use the keyword "final" in a way that may
> > be considered superfluous [2]. The revision also incorrectly used the
> > for-each loop. The example is reasonable, but it differs considerably
> > from one recently proposed [3]. I've edited the article, but I'd be
> > grateful for any review or corrections.
> >
> > [1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapter_pattern>
> > [2]<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/500517>
> > [3]<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_frm/thread/898c30260012fba3>
>
> Looks fine to me.
>
> I don't like the "one final keyword per line of code" practice.
>
> I would have used the old instanceof and () cast instead
> of those Class methods, but that does not seem to be
> important for the point.

Arne: Thanks for looking at this. Your point about the focus of example
code is well taken.

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