See, it's confusing! ;)

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Florijan Stamenkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> More likely "F implements Death"... I see you like generics, but there is
> such a thing as overuse :P
>
> F
>
> On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:40, Lon Varscsak wrote:
>
>  <? extends Death>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> ___
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