`[]` operator on `Buffer`s?

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[elect]

[] operator on `Buffer`s?

[elizarov]

elect: On what Buffers? You can always write one yourself for whatever buffer you are using (it is just one line of code)

[elect]

I tried

[elect]

it says "it's shadowed" and it doesn't work

[elect]

wait

[elizarov]

What buffer you are talking about. I don't understand.

[elect]

I tried the get

[elect]

yep, it works

[elect]

get is shadowed by a member

[elect]

do you think this can be a problem?

[elect]

currently, however, it seems to work properly

[elect]

[] refers to the get operator
get to the original ByteBuffer.get()

[elizarov]

Yes. It will.

[elizarov]

What else would you expect [] or a ByteBuffer to do?

[elect]

oh nothing else, but I was just wondering if this may cause some ambiguities for the compilers

[elect]

because I hit a couple of times a situation where from java it said there was an ambiguity (same java signature)

[dmitry.petrov]

Members win. That is, if there's an applicable class member, it will always have a priority over an extension.
And yes, it kinda sucks that ByteBuffer has a get method that looks like a [] operator, but does something really different.