Consumers and Suppliers

[Howard Lovatt]

I didn't mean that the collection was typically simultaneously a Consumer and a Supplier, I meant that it was typically one or the other (I should have been clearer in what I said). In my own collection library I do this and I find it very convenient. 

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On 05/04/2013, at 12:54 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 5/04/2013 9:51 AM, Howard Lovatt wrote:
>> If the method in Consumer was called put and the method in Supplier was
>> called take, then Queue could be retrofitted to extend both Consumer and
>> Supplier and then many collections could be Consumers and Suppliers.
>> 
>> I think this would be useful - what do others think?
> 
> I would find that rather confusing because in the common producer/consumer sense the producer puts things into the queue and the consumer removes them from the queue. The queue itself is not considered to be producer/supplier nor consumer.
> 
> David
> 
>>   -- Howard.
>>