Return type of Object.getClass()

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  Le 30/06/2011 23:16, Zhong Yu a écrit :
> Why does it return Class<? extends |X|>  instead of Class<? extends X>? Quote:
>
> The actual result type is Class<? extends |X|>  where |X| is the
> erasure of the static type of the expression on which getClass is
> called.
>
> This means the following code does not compile
>      T obj = ...;
>      Class<T>  clazz = obj.getClass();
>
> What's the reason for erasure here? Thanks.
>
> Zhong Yu

StackOverflow is better for this kind of question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4703557/a-strange-error-in-java-generic

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