Or perhaps that is LWn (1 < n < 10).

> On May 17, 2018, at 12:05 AM, John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> IMO, for experimental purposes any special javac check that blocks VTs from 
> genetics needs<LW1> to have a command line switch to unblock, so we can see 
> by special experiment where exactly VT erasure breaks generics. 
> 
> On May 16, 2018, at 7:53 PM, Dan Smith <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>>> On May 16, 2018, at 4:45 PM, Brian Goetz <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> No support for any interaction between values and generics _whatsoever_ (I 
>>> said minimal!)
>> 
>> You clarified that this means the compiler actively rejects types like 
>> List<Point>. Not clear to me what would prompt that—it's more work for the 
>> compiler, the JVM doesn't care either way, and it's easy for users to work 
>> around (use a raw type).
>> 
>> But the quality of language support will be "crappy ad-hoc" anyway, so, you 
>> know, whatever works. I'm just happy to have a compiler at all!

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