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On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Guido Neitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> No, strangled ...
>
> cug
>
>
> On 22.07.2008, at 09:30, Florijan Stamenkovic wrote:
>
>  :) I'd probably get shot
>>
>> F
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:52, Pascal Robert wrote:
>>
>>  You should do a "I love generics" session at WOWODC 09 :-P
>>>
>>>  Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> I agree. And I've found that after reading about how they are actually
>>>> implemented in Java, most of the *quirks* start to make sense. So, in my
>>>> opinion, if you do not count the decision not to include generic typing 
>>>> into
>>>> the VM, they are implemented quite sensibly. Also, once I got used to their
>>>> peculiarities, I stopped having extra work about them, I'd say they even
>>>> make me work faster. For me nowadays the worst thing about using generic is
>>>> that occasionally I have to @suppressWarnings to get the compiler to stop
>>>> whining about something that will infallibly work. Besides that, I'm happy.
>>>>
>>>> As for Lachlan's problem, I remember once being in a similar situation.
>>>> When first trying to deal with defining generic Comparators for sorting. I
>>>> can't recall the details, but remember not being able to tweak my code so 
>>>> it
>>>> is functional in all legal situations. I finally got it solved by
>>>> rearranging <? super Something>, <Something> and <? extends Something>. My
>>>> point being, it was my lack of detailed understanding of Java generics that
>>>> was the problem, not the generics per se.
>>>>
>>>> F
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 21, 2008, at 23:55, Andrew Lindesay wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hello Guido;
>>>>>
>>>>> Coming from the Objective-C mindset they do seem really rather
>>>>> annoying, but I find after some months of playing with them that they are
>>>>> actually helpful in order to know what is inside otherwise unstructured
>>>>> collections.  I have also, in implementing generics, identified a couple 
>>>>> of
>>>>> "invisible" bugs in some caching code which was quite neat and this showed
>>>>> me how generics can actually be helpful to identify problems too.  So I've
>>>>> come to a point where I think they're actually quite handy despite the 
>>>>> extra
>>>>> work they create.
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Maybe I'm just too spoiled from Objective-C.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ___
>>>>> Andrew Lindesay
>>>>> www.lindesay.co.nz
>>>>>
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