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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Java generics and type erasure
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Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote:
> OK, so I shouldn't have said "bytecode", I should've said "class file", two 
> terms that I treat interchangeably.  It's in the freaking CLASS FILE, right? 
> Isn't that the thing that gets used at runtime?  Doesn't the generic 
> information in THE CLASS FILE get ignored at runtime just like I said?

It's not so much a question of whether the generic information of a 
class file (like java/util/ArrayList.class) is used or not, but rather
whether the generic information of a particular *use* of that class was
in the *using* code's class-file, which I think isn't:
  ... = new ArrayList<ArrayList<ArrayList<Boolean>>>();