java.util.Pair

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Bourrillion <kevinb at google.com>wrote:

> With all due respect, I rest my case. :-)
>
> (Meaning: since you chose such a hypothetical future situation as an
> illustration, it suggests that indeed no actual bugs are being prevented
> here in the real world.)
>
> We have to recognize the fact that it is no small amount of the world's
> Java code that would become broken if generics were ever reified.  And, as
> well, that -- no, I won't go on about this, because it's now a tangent of a
> tangent.
>

That depends on how the reification is done.  Reification as described in <
http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html> would
break no existing code.
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