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7 Responses to “You know something is wrong when this is the solution…”

1. Bob Lee Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 8:19 pm

   The alternative is that generic code wouldn’t be able to interact with legacy code. Erasure isn’t *that* bad.

2. Dion Almaer Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 8:32 pm

   I am somewhat teasing, but on the other hand I would hate to be in CSCI 101 and staring at this kind of code. (lisp (prefer (i would)))

3. Eugene Kuleshov Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 9:16 pm

   I particularly like what Neal himself said about that: “Erasure rears its ugly head…”. He was joking, but still… :-)

4. Bob Lee Says:
   December 4th, 2006 at 10:50 pm

   The current syntax leaves a lot to be desired, but that’s what syntax sugar is for–so CS 101 students can enjoy the semantics without worrying about the mechanics. ;)

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   December 5th, 2006 at 12:19 am

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6. Tiago Silveira Says:
   December 5th, 2006 at 4:03 am

   Something’s been wrong for quite a while.

   Stephen Colebourne bashed his head against the wall too: http://jroller.com/page/scolebourne?entry=generics_bashing_your_head_against

   When everybody needed more expressive ways to write behaviour, they gave us a way to play hide-and-seek with the compiler. It hides, you seek.

7. Emmanuel Pirsch Says:
   December 5th, 2006 at 7:16 am

   Or when you cannot do this :

   List<Stuff> a= new ArrayList<Stuff>();
   List<Stuff> b= new ArrayList<Stuff>();
   List<Stuff> c= new ArrayList<Stuff>();

   List<Stuff>[] aLotOfStuff= new List<Stuff>[]{a, b, c};

   But you can do :
   List<?>[] aLotOfStuff= new List<?>[]{a, b, c};

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