Huston, we have a problem !

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 18/02/11 17:10, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Maurizio Cimadamore:
>
>>> But are these concepts actually different?  If they are, there has to
>>> be case where adding<>   to a raw type results in different results at
>>> run-time.
>> Well, because of type-erasure you won't be able to tell the difference
>> between List<String>  and List<Integer>  either - so are they the same
>> thing?
> Clearly, those a different at compile time.  What I'm looking for is a
> case where both Foo and Foo<>  result in legal expressions at compile
> time and produce different byte code.
>
As I've shown with my example, Foo and Foo<> are different at 
compile-time. Just as List<String> and List<Integer> are (well, in a 
more subtle way). They have different members, different supertypes etc. 
They are just different types.

Maurizio