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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: alias for Integer
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:58:22 +0100
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On 18.11.2011 15:50, jrobinss wrote:

> public final class MatrixIndex {
>    public final int value;
>    public MyIndex(int i) {value = i;}
> }

I'd rather use Integer but if you want a specific type you could 
implement a class which inherits Number and works exactly same way 
Integer does and has a generic type parameter for the container type. 
While that type parameter would be otherwise useless it would help in 
catching type errors.

Kind regards

	robert

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