Static fields in specialized classes

[David Chase]

I think we’ve become accustomed to some of the artifacts that result from erasure-based generics.
That’s not the same as intuitive.

David

On 2014-10-13, at 3:13 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

>> As a user, I would *not* expect that there's just one fooCount field for
>> all Foo<T> instances.
> 
> Except that's how generics have worked in Java since 2004.  Do you propose that existing generic code with statics should change how it behaves?  Or are you suggesting that the existing behavior is also counterintuitive?