Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > Just going through the svnj source, and I started wondering why we're not > using generics in our own java packages. Generics were introduced in Java > 5.0, but turns out that we only require 1.3 in our own source. Given that > 5.0 was introduced in 2004, isn't it about time we relax our requirements and > update our code to use the new features of 5.0? The change to our package > namespace presents a good opportunity to do so. >
Generics in Java are just glorified syntactic sugar, but they /do/ help the compiler to produce marginally better error messages ... so as far as I'm concerned, let's do that. -- Brane
