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Re: Java generics and type erasure

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From	Susan Calvin <s.calvin@usr.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Java generics and type erasure
Date	Thu, 26 May 2011 04:18:46 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 26 May 2011 13:59:25 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> In message <irk9dr$j5p$4@dont-email.me>, Susan Calvin wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 May 2011 10:18:20 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> 
>>> In message <irhhik$9rc$3@dont-email.me>, Susan Calvin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Perhaps there should be a compile flag that turns on the
>>>> legacy-compatible behavior for use when compiling 1.4 and older
>>>> sources, but which is off by default?
>>> 
>>> What happens when you mix code compiled with that flag, with code that
>>> was compiled without?
>> 
>> Why, nothing, of course, since generics don't exist at run-time.
> 
> If theat were the case, then there would be no backward-compatibility
> issue, would there? And the whole machinery of “raw” types could just
> disappear in a puff of un-necessity.

No -- presumably, it would have caused problems compiling 1.4 source code 
against 1.5's libraries, not running existing 1.4 bytecode linked to 1.5 
libraries.

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