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Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 15:23:44 +1000
From: Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com>
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On 28/05/2011 12:22 AM, Lew wrote:
> I said that the
> runtime phenomenon is the static state of generics HAVING ALREADY BEEN
> ERASED SOMETIME *PRIOR*. It's the *static* state to which I refer.

That static state is created at compile time. It exists prior to 
runtime. Runtime may never occur. Ergo it doesn't make any sense to 
regard it as a runtime phenomenon. Ontologically speaking.