Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:41:29 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:40:47 -0700 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: generics References: <6sGdncrNDqC4WGrQnZ2dnUVZ8k6dnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <19824aa2-875f-4465-ad95-7a7926e7e030@35g2000prp.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <19824aa2-875f-4465-ad95-7a7926e7e030@35g2000prp.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <9JadndLUzorE02fQnZ2dnUVZ_qGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.199.66 X-Trace: sv3-EB3hincA2L/Lqak0NXVYw0soHWd5MuDJXi4uKAMbdVrQQWX1DjR2celoMWLC7MPUHDB4M33bFPi2KgP!+UVFMsfvy2h01u5WsaN371qvfzfuN9YLKSYZ2ALLzV2UqSH9sorfJpE/n80WnZVGiTyitt13pjPh!ECD9xQ8Zczxgyrr/AxExc6din/RGN//ydrAlhco0kE4+xQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2111 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:775 On 6/16/2011 7:05 AM, Lewis Bloch wrote: > On Jun 14, 2:21 pm, markspace<-@.> wrote: >> On 6/14/2011 1:31 PM, Neil Morris wrote: >> >>> animalCageLionOldShool = new Cage(Lion lion) >>> animalCageCatOldSchool = new Cage(Cat cat) >> >>> animalCageLionOldSchool=animalCatOldSchool \\ ??????legal????? >> >> Yeah, sorry, your syntax has left the planet Earth completely and I >> don't know what you are asking. Please write something that compiles. >> >> There's just too much tosh in the above for me to guess what the heck it >> is you are actually trying to say. > > Neil - read and follow http://sscce.org/ or, if it is a matter of wanting to achieve some result and not having code to do it, try to state the objective clearly. Patricia