On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Joseph Darcy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Note that today Odersky does *not* favor reified generics. > > He made this point explicitly in the recent past when he gave his > "Future-proofing Scala collections: From mutable to persistent to > parallel" talk at Stanford: > http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/110601.html Indeed, and he's not alone. There is a lot of misinformation going on, claiming that erasure was a terrible mistake. From what I've heard, most experts agree that it was actually a pretty sensible decision, both from a technical and backward compatibility standpoint. And there are actually very few languages that support truly reified generics. -- Cédric -- 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.
