Idea how to implement VT/VO compatibility in JVM

[Stéphane Épardaud]

On 01/22/2015 03:42 PM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
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> Ok can we first agree that List <T> is NOT List <Object>? :) That's 
> unsound since you can't add any Object in there if things are 
> reified.  I think you guys mean List <?>.
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Well, that what I meant by "variance issues aside". It is unsound but 
detected at runtime. This is already a limitation of List in Java at 
compile-time, I'm not proposing to fix it.