Static fields and specialization
Ben Lewis
benlewisj at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 22:08:46 UTC 2015
Static fields cannot be specialized as what type would the field be
Optional, Optional<int> or Optional<someValueType>. This approach has
problems with generics anyways, both Optional.empty() and
Collections.empty*() are methods to maintain type safety as stated in the
javadocs.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Palo Marton <palo.marton at gmail.com> wrote:
> If static fields are not specialized, how will you handle things
> like Optional.EMPTY?
>
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