Idea how to implement VT/VO compatibility in JVM

[Vitaly Davidovich]

Can't invoke them statically, yes, but could reflectively.  Again, .NET
allows this and that's how people bridge late bound code with generics.

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On Jan 22, 2015 8:44 AM, "Stéphane Épardaud" <stef at epardaud.fr> wrote:

> On 01/22/2015 02:41 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
>
>>
>> So this type of use case would be a problem if generics were there from
>> day 1 but ? didn't exist.  What you want here is be able to invoke generic
>> methods at runtime /late bound, and not necessarily coercing everything to
>> extend ?.
>>
>>  Well, I don't think we can invoke generic methods of value types unless
> we can either know the value type statically or unless we can box them.
>