Suggestions for Java Generics Semantics in Java Version 7.0 _ Found The Solutions In A Blog

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Jaisimha,

There are no plans to implement reification in JDK 7, nor is there any  
likelihood or possibility of this being changed.

-- Jonathan Gibbons.


On Jun 12, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Jaisimha Narahari wrote:

> Hi Maurizio,
>
> Thanks for those comments in my post.
>
> However, I Found The Descriptions of the Technical Solutions for  
> both of my suggestions in the following blog which might also  
> interest you:
>
> http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html
>
> Just for the record , actually, if you LOOK ONLY AT THE TWO  
> SUGGESTIONS that I have made in the earlier posts, reproduced here:
>
>
>
> From Java Version 7.0, going forward:
>
>
>                   (1) "Deprecate" Raw Types
>
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>                   (2) Remove Backward
> Compatibility provision and therefore convert "Erasure"
>
>                        to
> "Reification" for Generic Types, the
> consequence of which will render the
>
>                        above two rules for the usage of Generic  
> Types unnecessary,
> making all                       types provided by the language  
> behave uniformly, most especially
>
>                        without violating OOP
> principles in what is essentially an OOP Language.
>
>
>
> what I meant is that if these two changes can be made to Java 7,  
> which implies also Runtime support from the JVM, in addition to  
> changes in javac, then Java would be robust, without requiring  
> special treatment of Generic Types.
>
> By suggestion (2) above, Reification of Generic Types implies carrying
> over the Type info of Type Parameters to the Runtime - possible only
> with support both from the JVM and javac.
>
>
>
> Thanks again for your comments, but the blog at the above given URL  
> summed up the answer for me.
>
> It would be very worthwhile for Sun to try and implement one of the  
> Two Solutions given in the blog at the above URL.
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