Question on layer/peeling

[Michael Barker]

>
> (Public service announcement: Any talk about "spec" is woefully premature;
> what we've got is an idea on a white board.)
>

Ooops, s/spec/draft proposal/g


> The case you describe is what we call "implementation by parts", where
> there is a method who is a member of Foo<any T> but which might have
> different implementation depending on whether T is a value or an (erased)
> reference.  This is one of the use cases described in SotS, and such things
> come up in a number of places inside the implementation of Collections.
>

That was my expectation.  I toying with a specialised HashMap to a feel for
how specialisation will work.  I'm assuming that the layer parts aren't
implemented yet - I couldn't find anything in a cursory browse of the
commits.  Is there something I could do in the meantime as a hack (e.g.
instanceof check and downcast to Object[])?

Mike.