What Alex Buckley said on Java7 BOF: There is an experimental project doing reification and the mess of mixed types: Type with no generics, Type with erased generics, and Type with reified generics... Generate a Big pile of typing mud :)
What I say: I don't know what is needed for the JVM to manage reified type (may be nothing?), and that's needed for sure. We need to have a good reified language that has clean API (mainly collections) with enforced generics, which is not Java. And then the integration type mud is manegeable (still hard but doable). In Java itself it's going to be a nightmare! On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > Was anything said a Devoxx over the reification of generics in Java 7 at > all? I do so hope that makes it in... > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Alan Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think having generics is a big step forward over not having generics - >> I use them a lot too. Just avoiding casts for every ArrayList get call is a >> big win. >> >> > -- > "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code." -- > Bill Harlan > > > > -- http://www.jfrog.org/ http://freddy33.blogspot.com/ http://nothingisinfinite.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
