Just like hair grows back every time, Generics is still broken every time I use it.
I'm going to have a cup of Tea now to alleviate the pain. I hope you all get Dick Walled. On Dec 11, 9:24 pm, max522 <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Hairless Ape, > > How much hair did you lose when you produced this overly dramatic > post? > > Mark > > On Dec 11, 2:03 pm, Hairless_ape <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Consider this. > > > Humans have evolved to become what is essentially hairless apes(if we > > overlook the slight difference i appearance and intelligence). > > However we still grow hair in our anuses, whereas most if not all apes > > have a clean hairless anus(google for baboon and witness it's superior > > anus). The apes for all their weaknesses > > retain a big upper hand in the shit taking department, and as you know > > we take shits quite often. > > > It's the same with Java, we use Generics quite often yet it's a real > > pain to use it in it's current state for more complex stuff. It's > > like taking a big dump and feeling the hair getting ripped out, > > meanwhile the apes snicker at us. > > > If we continue on this track much longer this planet will be overrun > > by apes. Then let's see how fun your "conservative evolution" was. > > > On Dec 11, 8:33 pm, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > sherod wrote: > > > > Wow. You've just summarized the last 12 months of popular topics on > > > > the group in three lines :) > > > > Well one side of the topics at any rate. > > > > Realistically any closures addition would be highly contentious and far > > > from a win-win. I'm actually for adding BGGA closures, /but/ I can see > > > /almost/ as much downside as upside to doing so. > > > > Similarly generics really work quite well today. Reification would be > > > nice in some cases certainly, but I'd also not give up the ability to > > > blithely pass collections, etc, to from old code without any issues for > > > just to get reification. If someone figures out how to do reification > > > and allow seamless bidirectional no-cost data interchange with old > > > libraries, great. If not, I can't get excited about bifurcating the > > > code space for reification. > > > > Overall conservative language evolution does not equal language death. > > > Some of us have better things to do than chase every shiny new kitchen > > > sink :-) > > > > Now traits on the other hand... Traits would be really nice to add (if > > > done right -- as always the devil is in the details). > > > > -- > > > Jess Holle > > > > > On Dec 12, 5:02 am, Hairless_ape <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> What the hell! No closures. Still broken generics. > > > > >> Ah well at least there will be invokedynamic. > > > > >> I'm afraid that with this, Java is dying.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
