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Re: Converting Sets

Date 2012-02-04 20:49 -0500
From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Converting Sets
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On 2/2/2012 8:34 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 2/2/12 4:29 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> Have we gone down that road too far now that Java can never be fixed
>> with run-time generics info without starting over with some completely
>> different notation? Then serialisation could work, containers could be
>> allocated with the precise array type. You would not have so much
>> under-the-hood casting.
> The point of generics is to add compile-time type safety. Runtime
> "generics" is a contradiction to that.

That was the way it was decided to do it for Java.

But it did have to be that way.

And runtime check can certainly add to type safety!

Arne

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Converting Sets Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-01 23:34 -0800
  Re: Converting Sets Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2012-02-02 12:47 +0100
    Re: Converting Sets Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-02 05:32 -0800
      Re: Converting Sets Mayeul <mayeul.marguet@free.fr> - 2012-02-02 16:06 +0100
        Re: Converting Sets markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-02 09:21 -0800
          Re: Converting Sets Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-02-02 13:13 -0700
            Re: Converting Sets markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-02 13:46 -0800
          Re: Converting Sets Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-02 16:29 -0800
            Re: Converting Sets Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-02 17:34 -0800
              Re: Converting Sets Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-04 20:49 -0500
                Re: Converting Sets Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-06 12:55 -0800
                Re: Converting Sets Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-06 20:47 -0500
                Re: Converting Sets Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-06 17:51 -0800
                Re: Converting Sets Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-06 20:57 -0500
            Re: Converting Sets markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-03 14:12 -0800
              Re: Converting Sets Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 22:32 -0800
            Re: Converting Sets Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 22:30 -0800
          Re: Converting Sets Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 22:33 -0800
      Re: Converting Sets Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-02-02 11:02 -0800
    Re: Converting Sets Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-02 18:25 -0800
      Re: Converting Sets markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-03 14:25 -0800

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