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Re: Checked casting with Generics

From Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Checked casting with Generics
Date 2018-07-04 23:03 +0000
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On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 17:37:46 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:

> On 7/4/2018 5:22 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> [...[
>>      Unless something else turns up, the best I can suggest is to
>>      add
>> `@SuppressWarning("unchecked")' and an extensive comment ...
> 
>      `@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")', of course (sorry)!
>                       ^
> 
>      Also, I notice that javax.mail's public API wasn't generified until
> version 1.6, which seems to have come out about one year ago.  If your
> version is older than that it probably doesn't grok generics at all.

A quick scan of the Javadocs makes that likely: I didn't spot any 
generics in places where I'd expect them, e.g. the Folder class is 
subclassed rather generified. and the same applied to in interface I 
spotted.
 

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Checked casting with Generics Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-07-04 19:57 +0000
  Re: Checked casting with Generics Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-07-04 17:22 -0400
    Re: Checked casting with Generics Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-07-04 17:37 -0400
      Re: Checked casting with Generics Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-07-04 23:03 +0000
      Re: Checked casting with Generics Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-07-05 15:38 +0000
    Re: Checked casting with Generics Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-07-04 22:56 +0000

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