And, regarding generics...as for value - wow...how many heterogenous
collections did we ever really use in pre 1.5 code? Most of my
collections always contained homogeneous data. So, having generics now
certainly improves readability (yes I know, under the covers it does the
casts for me)... I have plenty of instances where being able to supply
type via generics markup makes the code clearer at a bare minimum.
With anything, one can abuse what one has...how about "smart" code that
abused C++ operator overloading? Arg that was a bloody mess...
Scot P. Floess wrote:
Sorry let me clarify... The comment was "The original code may be
slightly incorrect (my understanding
of java generics is not high)." And the response was "Me too. I don't
like STL!" I do realize STL is built using generics. The Standard
Template Library defines templates...but STL in and of itself isn't
generics (meaning without STL there is still the notion of generics).
James Abley wrote:
Scot P. Floess wrote:
What do generics have to do with STL?
You're joking, right? Have you used the STL much?
Generics are very very handy :)
Maybe. I live in a world where the majority of my code has to work on
pre-Java 5, and for code where I can use Java 5 features, generics
don't seem to add a great deal. Maybe a bit less busywork in my code;
ditto unboxing.
James Abley wrote:
Peter Reilly wrote:
The original code may be slightly incorrect (my understanding
of java generics is not high).
Me too. I don't like STL!
James
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