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Re: exporting a HashMap

From Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: exporting a HashMap
Date 2012-01-16 10:55 -0800
Organization Canadian Mind Products
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:22:08 -0800, Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>And anyway, generics and arrays do mix, just not well. To say merely that they 
>don't mix, without the qualifier "well", isinaccurate and misleading, and 
>certainly no help to newbies. Better would be to explain the limits, why they 
>exist, and what the alternatives are.

If you were charged with writing a paragraph or to for newbies to
explain the impedance mismatch of arrays and generics what would you
say?
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
One of the most useful comments you can put in a program is 
"If you change this, remember to change ?XXX? too".
 

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exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-15 08:30 -0800
  Re: exporting a HashMap Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-15 12:01 -0500
    Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-16 02:06 -0800
    Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-17 09:04 -0800
      Re: exporting a HashMap Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-17 20:38 -0500
  Re: exporting a HashMap Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-15 12:25 -0500
    Re: exporting a HashMap Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-15 10:22 -0800
      Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-16 10:55 -0800
        Re: exporting a HashMap Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-16 14:55 -0500
          Re: exporting a HashMap Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-16 14:19 -0800
            Re: exporting a HashMap David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-01-16 18:31 -0500
            Re: exporting a HashMap Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-17 09:54 -0800
      Re: exporting a HashMap Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-16 15:07 -0500
  Re: exporting a HashMap Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-01-15 19:22 +0000
  Re: exporting a HashMap Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-15 21:02 -0800

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