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Re: Java generics and type erasure

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From Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject Re: Java generics and type erasure
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On 05/30/2011 01:23 AM, Esmond Pitt wrote:
> 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.
>

Generics don't matter at runtime.  They matter at compile time.  That's that.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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    Re: Java generics and type erasure Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-24 01:45 -0400
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                Re: Java generics and type erasure Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-26 22:15 -0400
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                Re: Java generics and type erasure Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-27 01:27 -0400
                Re: Java generics and type erasure Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-05-27 18:07 +1000
                Re: Java generics and type erasure Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-27 10:18 -0400
                Re: Java generics and type erasure Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-05-27 17:03 +0000
                Re: Java generics and type erasure Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-27 13:27 -0400
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                Re: Java generics and type erasure Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-05-27 18:09 +1000
                Re: Java generics and type erasure Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-27 10:22 -0400
                Re: Java generics and type erasure Esmond Pitt <esmond.pitt@bigpond.com> - 2011-05-30 15:23 +1000
                Re: Java generics and type erasure Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-30 02:35 -0400

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