Diamond with anonymous classes: what if anonymous class were generic

[Zhong Yu]

Currently, people use "super type token" trick [1] to create a sort of
"type literal". This trick depends on the fact that an anonymous class is
non-generic.

Otherwise, the following two cases may share the same class, and defeats
the trick.

    new TypeReference<List<String>>() {}

    new TypeReference<Set<Integer>>() {}

[1] http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/12/super-type-tokens.html

PS - it's great to have diamond with anonymous class, particularly because
"super type token" would be much simpler in many use cases.

Zhong Yu
bayou.io
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