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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
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