On 19 Aug., 04:06, James Iry <james...@gmail.com> wrote: > I really hate phrasing something like this as being a "figment." That's > like saying that "short" and "char" are figments of the JVM's imagination > because it's all just bits.
Yeah well, it depends how you look at it I suppose. I would also claim generics to be a figment of the JVM's imagination, since you can not implement Comparable<Integer> and Comparable<BigInteger> due to it being an emulated construct at the parser level. Other languages with real generics have no problem with that, in Java all of a sudden you are going to need anonymous inner classes as dispatch adapters. /Casper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
