java.nio.Buffer: slice, duplicate, compact

[Alan Bateman]

On 24/02/2016 21:01, Pavel Rappo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any reasons why those methods cannot be defined in java.nio.Buffer and
> overridden in its descendants covariantly? Those operations seem to be
> completely type type-agnostic.
>
java.nio was introduced in Java SE 1.4 and so pre-dates covariant return 
types. Some work has been done on this but there are other 
opportunities. One of these days ...

-Alan