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From: Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: are lambdas a way to bring functional programming to java?
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markspace schrieb:
>
> I think people see something weird in Java that they don't understand,
> and they immediately think "it's generics again."  Generics had some
> really unfortunate consequences, especially in the long run, that I
> don't think the expert group foresaw or completely understood.  (In
> their defense, I'm sure they did as good as a job as possible at the time.)

Small question: What unfortunate consequence in respect to
generics are people usually refering to? I hear something
similar yesterday.

Bye