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Re: eclipse and un-generics

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On 10/20/2011 12:11 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> My attempt to use  Class<?>  as argument type in the implementing
> class failed, and I'm not sure I understand the deeper reasons of
> why this has to fail. I.e. why it doesn't just see it as an override
> instead of complaining about a bad overload.

While Class<?> is often treated as being the generic equivalent of 
Class, they're not quite the same thing. Logically, "Class" means "a 
class of anything", while "Class<?>" means "a class of some unknown type".

Indeed, if anything, "Class" is probably closer in typing terms to 
"Class<Object>", although there are a slew of special rules to account 
for the fact that "Class<Object>" is probably very rarely meant.
-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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eclipse and un-generics Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-10-20 17:11 +0000
  Re: eclipse and un-generics Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-10-20 17:51 -0500
    Re: eclipse and un-generics Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-10-22 23:04 +0000

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