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From: Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>
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Subject: Re: can this be done with generics?
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On 12/7/13 11:20 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
>> Yes, this *can* be done with generics, but its relatively ugly and hard
>> to maintain.
>
> Thanks for the answer, but you're a bit late to the party, and both the
> getThis()-approach as well as a slightly "dirtier"(with unchecked casts)
> solution that also works with instanciable non-leaf-classes have already
> been posted. :)
>
Yeah, I saw that after I posted :-)

Cheers.