Package palisades.lakes.multimethods.java

Interface Signature

All Known Implementing Classes:

Signature0, Signature2, Signature3, SignatureN

public interface Signature

A 'list' of classes, for optimizing method lookup. Implementation details, subject to revision. Use the Clojure API to be future-proof.

Note: does NOT implement java.util.List.

Since:

2017-06-05

Version:

2017-10-09

Author:

palisades dot lakes at gmail dot com

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class... ks)	If this.isAssignableFrom(ks), then a method defined for this can be used on a length 3 arglist whose classes are the elements of ks.
boolean	isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class k0, java.lang.Class k1)	If this.isAssignableFrom(k0,k1), then a method defined for this can be used on a length 2 arglist whose classes are k0, k1.
boolean	isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class k0, java.lang.Class k1, java.lang.Class k2)	If this.isAssignableFrom(k0,k1,k2), then a method defined for this can be used on a length 3 arglist whose classes are k0, k1, k3.
boolean	isAssignableFrom(Signature that)	If this.isAssignableFrom(that), then a method defined for this can be used on an arglist whose signature is that.

Method Detail

isAssignableFrom

boolean isAssignableFrom(Signature that)

If this.isAssignableFrom(that), then a method defined for this can be used on an arglist whose signature is that.

isAssignableFrom

boolean isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class k0,
                         java.lang.Class k1)

If this.isAssignableFrom(k0,k1), then a method defined for this can be used on a length 2 arglist whose classes are k0, k1.

This eliminates the need to create signature instances in a common special case.

isAssignableFrom

boolean isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class k0,
                         java.lang.Class k1,
                         java.lang.Class k2)

If this.isAssignableFrom(k0,k1,k2), then a method defined for this can be used on a length 3 arglist whose classes are k0, k1, k3.

This eliminates the need to create signature instances in a common special case.

isAssignableFrom

boolean isAssignableFrom(java.lang.Class... ks)

If this.isAssignableFrom(ks), then a method defined for this can be used on a length 3 arglist whose classes are the elements of ks.

This eliminates the need to create signature instances in a common special case.