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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: can this be done with generics?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:16:43 +0100
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On 26.11.2013 02:04, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

> I hoped, one could spice up method foo() with some specific
> generic wizardry, such that the compiler would see a return
> type, that (almost) nothing else than "this" could satisfy.
>
> That would prevent even overrides of foo() returning anything else
> than their "this" pointer.  Alas, there doesn't seem to exist this
> kind of wizardry in today's Java.

Why don't you think that my solution [1] qualifies?

Kind regards

	robert


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